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| |  | | Miodrag Jokic | | | context : | Former Yugoslavia  | | judgement place : | ICTY (Yugoslavia) | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Sentenced to 7 years imprisonment; sentence confirmed on appeal; granted early release on 1 September 2008 | | position : | Commander of the JNA at the time of the attack on Dubrovnik |
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| | | | Miodrag Jokic was born on 25 February 1935 in Valjevo (Serbia). At the age of 19 he entered the naval military school of Divulje (Croatia), where he was trained in various disciplines of naval warfare. Subsequently, he occupied various posts as an officer in the Yugoslav marine forces. In 1991 he was appointed commander of the 9th naval sector of Boka, Montenegro.
The year 1991 marks the beginning of the collapse of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. On 25 April 1991, a referendum on independence was held in Croatia, and on 8 October, independence was declared. However, from the end of August, the JNA took up positions in several Croatian villages and towns close to the Serbian border and laid siege to Vukovar. The Croatian Republic answered by besieging the barracks of the JNA; at the same time it organised its own army with the support of the Croatian National Guard (ZNA).
The confrontations between the JNA and the ZNA in the vicinity of Dubrovnik began in September 1991. Units of the JNA, now under Serbian control, were subsequently transferred to Dubrovnik. On 1 October 1191, the JNA launched a terrestrial, naval and airborne attack against the city and its surrounding area; the attack was commanded by Pavle Strugar, Miodrag Jokic and Vladimir Kovacevic (see ‘ramifications’).
It is alleged that the JNA injured and killed numerous civilians in the city of Dubrovnik and its vicinity in the illegal bomb attacks carried out between 1 October and 31 December 1991. Moreover, the historic centre of the town was supposedly hit by 1000 missiles fired by the JNA between 1 October and 6 December 1991. The whole historic town centre of Dubrovnik had been declared a UNESCO world heritage site, a fact of which Miodrag Jokic was aware, according to the indictment.
A study carried out by the institute for the protection of cultural monuments, in collaboration with UNESCO, concluded that 563 (68.3%) of the 824 buildings of the historic centre were hit by the projectiles.
Miodrag Jokic, as a commander of the 9th naval sector, ordered and supervised the bombardment of Dubrovnik on 6 December 1991. Two civilians were killed and three more injured in this bombardment.
Miodrag Jokic retired on 8 May 1992.
On 12 November 2001, he turned himself in to the ICTY. | |     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 : | | | Serbia and montenegro | | | date of birth : | | | 25.02.1935 | | | last time seen : | | | Denmark | | | period of charges : | | | 06.12.1991 - 06.12.1991 | | | judgement period : | | | 14.11.2001 - 30.08.2005 | | | charges : | | | War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 01.09.2008 |
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