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 | |  | | Goran Jelisic | | | context : | Former Yugoslavia  | | judgement place : | ICTY (Yugoslavia) | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Acquitted on 19 October 1999 on the count of genocide but sentenced to 40 years in prison for 31 counts of crimes against humanity and for serious breaches of the laws and customs of war. Sentence was confirmed on Appeal on 5 July 2001 | | position : | Held no official role within a police, military or paramilitary body |
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| | | | Goran Jelisic was born on 7 June 1968 in Bijelijna in Bosnia Herzegovina which is today in the Srpska Republic.
On 1st May 1992, the Muslim and Croatian population in the town of Brcko a municipality in Bosnia Herzegovina were advised by radio to surrender their arms. Immediately after this announcement, the Serb forces, which included soldiers, paramilitary forces and policemen, took over control of the town.
The Serb forces expelled the Muslim and Croatian population from their homes and grouped them together in assembly camps. The Muslim and Croatian men, aged between 16 and 60 years old (the age at which they could bear arms), as well as a few women, were then transferred to the camp at Luka.
Based on his own statements made during his guilty plea, Goran Jelisic arrived at the Brcko camp around 1st May 1992.
Between 7 and 21 May 1992, the prisoners in the Luka camp were the subject of systematic plans to have them eliminated.
On numerous occasions, with help from the camp guards, Goran Jelisic choose groups of detainees to be interrogated before being beaten and, very often, executed.
As a general rule, the victims were shot at point blank range with a bullet to the head or in the back.
Overall, Goran Jelisic was found guilty of the murder of a total of 13 people, of inflicting cruel treatment on 4 people and of stealing money from 4 detainees at the Luka camp. However, it remains possible that he killed or battered many more than this. In this respect, he is reported to have declared to a prisoner on 15 May 1992, that he was at his “eighty third incident”.
Goran Jelisic was arrested by the SFOR on 22 January 1998. He was transferred to the ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia), on the same day. | |     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 : | | | 07.06.1968 | | | also known as : | | | Adolf | | | last time seen : | | | Italie | | | period of charges : | | | 01.05.1992 - 31.05.1992 | | | judgement period : | | | 26.01.1998 - 05.07.2001 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 26.11.2007 |
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