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| |  | | Ljubomir Borovcanin | | | context : | Former Yugoslavia  | | judgement place : | ICTY (Yugoslavia) | | status : | On trial | | particulars : | Voluntary surrendered on April 1, 2005; his trial began on 14 July 2006; motion for acquittal dismissed in March 2008 | | position : | Deputy Commander of the Special Police Brigade of the Republika Srpska |
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| | | | Ljubomir Borovcanin was born on 27 February 1960 in Han Pijesak, Bosnia Herzegovina. He graduated in 1982 from Sarajevo University with a degree in political science, and in 1988 he received a Masters degree at Belgrade University in civil defence. In 1990, he was appointed Commander of the police station in Kladanj, where he remained until 13 May 1992, when Muslim forces took over the area. On 1 October 1993, Ljubomir Borovcanin was appointed Commander of the police station in Bratunac, a position that he held until 24 February 1994. As Deputy Commander of the Special Police Brigade of the Republika Srpska during the attack on the Srebrenica enclave, he was said to have been present in the different areas of Bratunac, Potocari, Sandici, Kravica, Srebrenica and Zornik between July 11 and 18, 1995.
On 10 July 1995, he was appointed Deputy Commander of the Special Police Brigade of the Republika Srpska (RS) Ministry of Interior (MUP), coming under the orders of Radislav Krstic (see “related cases”)who was then Chief of Staff of the Drina Corps of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS). Units under Borovcanin’s command were deployed in and around the areas of Potocari, Sandici, Kravica and Zvornik from 12 July to 18 July 1995.
Up until the publication of the indictment, which was confirmed on September 6th 2002, he worked as a teacher at the MUP school in Banja Luka, in the Republika Srpska.
The indictment against Ljubomir Borovcanin referred to his alleged involvement in: opportunist killings in Potocari, opportunistic killings in Bratunac, wide-scale and organised killings in Potocari and Tisca, killings and mistreatment of prisoners captured along the Bratunac/Milici road and wide-scale and organised killings in the Zvornik area, as well as other opportunistic killings.
According to the indictment, Ljubomir Borovcanin together with other VRS and MUP officers named in the indictment, was a member of, and knowingly participated in, a joint criminal enterprise, the common purpose of which was, among other things, to forcibly transfer the women and children from the Srebrenica enclave to Kladanj on 12 and 13 July 1995 and to capture, detain, summarily execute by firing squad, bury, and rebury thousands of Bosnian Muslim men and boys aged 16 to 60 from the Srebrenica enclave between 12 July 1995 until 19 July 1995.
The joint criminal enterprise, in which Ljubomir Borovcanin was a member and participant, was conceived and designed by General Ratko Mladic (see “related cases") and others on 11 and 12 July 1995, and administered and carried out by members of the VRS and MUP forces through the attack on the Srebrenica enclave.
During the several days following the attack on Srebrenica, the Bosnian Serb Army and Ministry of the Interior forces captured, detained, summarily executed, and buried over 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys from the Srebrenica enclave, and forcibly transferred the Bosnian Muslim women and children of Srebrenica out of the town.
Ljubomir Borovcanin voluntary surrendered to the ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia) on 1 April 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 : | | | Bosnia and herzegovina | | | date of birth : | | | 27.02.1960 | | | last time seen : | | | The Hague (Netherlands) | | | period of charges : | | | 07.1995 - 07.1995 | | | judgement period : | | | 14.07.2006 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 08.03.2010 |
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