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| |  | | Vladimir Kovacevic | | | context : | Former Yugoslavia  | | judgement place : | Serbia | | status : | Indicted | | particulars : | Declared unable to be judged by the ICTY due to mental illness on 12 April 2006; case referred to Serbia on 17 November 2006; on 30 July 2007 indicted by Serbia war crimes prosecutor's office | | position : | Commander of the JNA at the time of the attack on Dubrovnik |
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| | | | Vladimir Kovacevic, alias ‘Rambo’, was born on 15 January 1961 in Niksic in Montenegro. In 1985 he completed his military service in the JNA (Yugoslav Popular Army). In autumn 1991 he was promoted to commander of the 3rd battalion of the motor brigade JNA 472 (Trebinje). This battalion was subordinated to the command of the 9th naval sector, for which Miodrag Jokic was responsible; this sector was subordinated to the second operational group under the command of Pavle Strugar (see ‘ramifications’).
The year 1991 marks the beginning of the collapse of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. On 25 April 1991 a referendum on independence was held in Croatia, and on 8 October independence was declared. However, from the end of August on, the JNA took up positions in several Croatian villages and towns close to the Serbian border and laid siege to Vukovar. The Croatian Republic answered by besieging the barracks of the JNA; at the same time it organised its own army with the support of the Croatian National Guard (ZNA).
The confrontations between the JNA and the ZNA in the vicinity of Dubrovnik began in September 1991. Units of the JNA, now under Serbian control, were subsequently transferred to Dubrovnik. On 1 October the JNA launched a terrestrial, naval and airborne attack against the city and its surrounding area; the attack was commanded by Pavle Strugar, Miodrag Jokic and Vladimir Kovacevic.
It is alleged that the JNA injured and killed numerous civilians in the city of Dubrovnik and its vicinity in the course of the illegal bomb attacks carried out between 1 October and 31 December 1991. Moreover, the historic centre of the town was supposedly hit by 1000 missiles fired by the JNA between 1 October and 6 December 1991. The whole historic town centre of Dubrovnik had been declared a UNESCO world heritage site.
A study carried out by the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, in collaboration with UNESCO, concluded that 563 (68.3%) of the 824 buildings of the historic centre were hit by the projectiles.
Vladimir Kovacevic, as a commander of the 3rd battalion of the motor brigade JNA 472, ordered and supervised the bombardment (artillery and mortar fire) of 6 December 1991. Two civilians were killed and three more injured in this bombardment.
Vladimir Kovacevic was a fugitive until he decided to turn himself in after the federal government of Serbia and Montenegro issued ultimatums against 23 fugitives in an attempt to boost cooperation with the ICTY. Six fugitives complied, among them Vladimir Kovacevic. In exchange, it was guaranteed that the accused could remain in liberty until the opening of the proceedings. | |     click for more... | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | nationality : | | | Serbia and montenegro | | | date of birth : | | | 15.01.1961 | | | also known as : | | | Rambo | | | last time seen : | | | Military Medical Academy Belgrade | | | period of charges : | | | 06.12.1991 - 06.12.1991 | | | judgement period : | | | 03.11.2003 | | | charges : | | | War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 31.07.2007 |
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