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| |  | | Branimir Glavas | | | context : | Former Yugoslavia  | | judgement place : | Croatia | | status : | On trial | | particulars : | Indicted on 16 April 2007 on war crimes charges; second indictment issued on 9 May 2007; trial started on 15 October 2007; adjourned until 29 August 2008 | | position : | Former General in the Croatian Army, Deputy in Croatian Parliament and Municipal Councillor for the town of Osijek |
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| | | | Branimir Glavas was born on 23 September 1956 in Osijek, where he also studied law. After graduating, he took up a career in politics and in 1990 became one of the founding members of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). The same year, he was elected to the Croatian Parliament.
In 1991, at the time when Croatia was declared independent from the former Yugoslavia, tensions were on the rise between the new Croatian government and the Serb minority, which had both the political and military support of Belgrade. Towards the end of 1991 and beginning of 1992, the town of Osijek, on the front line between the Zagreb forces and the rebel units of the Croatian Serbs, witnessed the murder of 37 Serb civilians. Until the present date, only ten of the perpetrators of these crimes have been identified.
Branimir Glavas, at the time, was looked on as one of the Croatian politicians the most involved in the Croatian cause. During the period of the alleged facts, he was Secretary of Osijek Municipality Defence Secretariat as well as Commander of Osijek city defence.
Krunoslav Fehir, a former member of the unit which Glavas commanded during the war, has accused the latter of having arrested and ill treated Serb civilians, and of ordering the killing of two of them.
On 31 August 1991, he is said to have taken Cedomir Vukovic and Djordje Petkovic to warehouses located very near to his office where they were reportedly beaten and tortured then forced to drink sulphuric acid. When Vuckovic tried to escape, Branimir Glavas is said to have ordered Krunoslav Fehir to shoot him. Following this, he then, reportedly, told him to eliminate the other prisoner remaining in the warehouse. | |     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 : | | | Croatia | | | date of birth : | | | 23.09.1956 | | | last time seen : | | | Croatia | | | judgement period : | | | 15.10.2007 | | | charges : | | | Torture
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 26.07.2008 |
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