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| |  | | Aleksandar Medic | | | context : | Former Yugoslavia  | | judgement place : | Serbia | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Sentenced on 10 April 2007 to 5 years imprisonment for violation of customs of war by the Belgrade War Crimes Court | | position : | Member of the paramilitary group ‘Scorpions’ |
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| | | | Aleksandar Medic, born in 1967, was a member of the ‚Scorpions’, a formation founded in the early 1990s as a paramilitary group widely believed to have enjoyed the protection of Serbian security services. The group was active in Bosnia during the 1992-95 war and in Kosovo in the late 1990s. Its members are believed to have taken part in the capture of Srebrenica and the killing of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys in July 1995.
Aleksandar Medic was incriminated by a video tape filmed by a member of the ‚Scorpions’ which became public in summer 2005. The 20-minute video shows several members of the Scorpions unit ordering six young Bosnian prisoners, dressed in civilian clothes, from the back of a lorry. The victims are marched into woodland and shot one by one.
After the exhuming of the victims' bodies, DNA analyses identified Azmir Alispahic, 17, Safet Fejzic, also 17, and Sadik Saltic, 36, while the families recognized Smail Ibrahimovic and Fadil Salkic in the footage. The identity of the sixth victim remains unknown.
Aleksandar Medic was arrested in June 2005, days after the footage was shown at the trial of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic (see "related cases") at The Hague. | |     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. | |  |  | | last time seen : | | | Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro) | | | period of charges : | | | 16.07.1995 - 17.07.1995 | | | judgement period : | | | 20.12.2005 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 24.06.2007 |
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