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| |  | | Zeljko Mejakic | | | context : | Former Yugoslavia  | | judgement place : | Bosnia Herzegovina | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Case referred by the ICTY to the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina; sentenced to 21 years imprisonment on 30 May 2008 | | position : | Commander of the Omarska camp |
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| | | | Zeljko Mejakic also known as Meakic, or Meagic, was born on 2 August 1964 in Petrov Gaj, municipality of Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was in charge of Omarska camp beginning in late June, 1992, and was in a position of superior authority to everyone else in the camp. Before he took command of the camp, he was chief of security and had full authority over all the guards and any visitors. Before the war began in Bosnia-Herzegovina, he was a police official in Omarska village.
The indictment alleges that, during the early morning hours of 30 April 1992, Bosnian Serb police and army forces seized physical control of the town of Prijedor. Following the forcible take-over of Prijedor, severe restrictions were imposed on all aspects of life for non-Serbs, principally Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats, including movement and employment. According to the indictment, Bosnian Serb authorities in the Prijedor municipality unlawfully segregated, detained and confined more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslims, Bosnian Croats and other non-Serbs from the Prijedor area in the Omarska, Trnopolje and Keraterm camps between May and August 1992.
It is alleged that interrogations were conducted on a daily basis at the Omarska and Keraterm camps. Severe beatings, killings as well as other forms of physical and psychological abuse, including sexual assault, are alleged to have been commonplace at the Omarska and Keraterm camps. In addition, Omarska and Keraterm camps also operated in a manner designed to discriminate and subjugate the non-Serbs by inhumane acts and cruel treatment. These acts included the brutal living conditions imposed on the prisoners.
The crimes enumerated in the indictment were within the object of the joint criminal enterprise, which operated within the Keraterm and Omarska camps.
Zeljko Mejakic was transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on 4 July 2003. | |     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 : | | | Bosnia and herzegovina | | | date of birth : | | | 02.08.1964 | | | also known as : | | | “Meakic” or “Meagic” | | | last time seen : | | | Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina) | | | period of charges : | | | 04.1992 - 08.1992 | | | judgement period : | | | 20.12.2006 - 30.05.2008 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 01.06.2008 |
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