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| |  | | Vladimir Lazarevic | | | context : | Former Yugoslavia  | | judgement place : | ICTY (Yugoslavia) | | status : | On trial | | particulars : | Trial before the ICTY opened on 10 July 2006; The closing arguments between 22 and 27 August 2008 | | position : | Army General, Commander of the Pristina Corps of the 3rd Army of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
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| | | | Army General, Vladimir Lazarevic was born in the town of Gricar on 23 March 1949. In 1972, Vladimir Lazarevic obtained the Diploma of the Military Academy of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (JNA), which was to be the start of a brilliant military career.
In 1998, he became Chief of Staff of the Pristina Corps and was appointed Commander of this corps by presidential decree on 25 December 1998. Vladimir Lazarevic took up his position as Commander of the Pristina Corps by 6 January 1999 at the latest. He commanded this corps both before and during the state of war, which was declared on 24 March 1999. On 28 December 1999, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the 3rd Army, and subsequently it’s Commander on 13 March 2000.
The original indictment alleges that Vladimir Lazarevic as well as Vlastimir Djordjevic Nebojsa Pavkovic and Sreten Lukic (see “Related Cases”), planned, instigated, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted in preparing certain crimes. According to the indictment Lazarevic was part of a joint criminal enterprise which had the aim, in addition to other objectives, to expel a major part of the Kosovo Albanian civilians from the province in which they were living in order to maintain this province under Serb control. This joint criminal enterprise reportedly came into being, at the latest, in October 1998 and continued until 20 June 1999.
According to the indictment, armed forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) and of Serbia, in a deliberate and widespread or systematic manner, forcibly expelled and internally displaced hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanians from their homes across the entire province of Kosovo. In order to facilitate these expulsions and deportations, forces of the FRY and Serbia are said to have deliberately created a climate of fear and oppression by the use of force or by threatening to do so or by engaging in violent acts. Throughout Kosovo, according to the indictment, FRY and Serbian forces are alleged to have undertaken a widespread or systematic campaign of destruction of property belonging to Kosovo Albanian civilians. These coordinated actions made the towns, villages and entire regions uninhabitable for the Kosovo Albanians. Numerous Kosovo Albanians who had not been directly expelled by force from their community are said to have fled due to the climate of terror which had been created in the region by the widespread and systematic campaign of physical aggression, harassment, sexual violence, illegal arrest, murder, bombing and pillaging.
According to the Defence Law of the FRY , Vladimir Lazarevic in his role as Commander of the Pristina Corps of the 3rd Army of the VJ, should have exercised authority and control, through the structures and mechanisms of command and coordination, over the units of the Republican Police reporting to the Pristina Corps of the 3rd Army of the VJ or which were in action in cooperation or coordination with the latter , as well as over Territorial Army units , Civil Defence units, members of the Serb Interior Ministry and other armed groups.
Vladimir Lazarevic was arrested and transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on 3 February 2005. | |     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 : | | | 23.03.1949 | | | last time seen : | | | The Hague (Netherlands) | | | period of charges : | | | 10.1998 - 20.06.1999 | | | judgement period : | | | 10.07.2006 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 25.08.2008 |
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