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| |  | | Nikola Jorgic | | | context : | Former Yugoslavia  | | judgement place : | Germany | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Found guilty for genocide and sentenced to life imprisonment; judgment found to be in compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights on 12 July 2007 | | position : | Leader of a paramilitary group |
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| | | | According to findings of the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf, Bosnian Serb Nikola Jorgic was the leader of a paramilitary group that took part in acts of terror against the Muslim population; the crimes were carried out with the backing of the Serb rulers and were designed to contribute to their policy of ethnic cleansing.
Jorgic arrested Muslims and put them in prison camps where they were tortured; the Court also found that in June 1992, he took part in the execution of 22 inhabitants of Grabska (among them disabled and elderly people), who had gathered in the open in order to escape fighting. Three other Muslims had to carry the dead to a mass grave. A few days later, Jorgic ordered the expulsion of their village and the brutal ill-treatment of 40-50 inhabitants from Sevarlije; six of them were shot dead. The seventh victim, who was not fatally wounded, died later when he was burned together with the six bodies. In September 1992, Jorgic put a tin bucket on the head of a prisoner in the central prison of Doboj and hit it with such force that the victim died as a consequence of the blow.
From May 1969 until the beginning of 1992, Nikola Jorgic had his permanent residence in Germany; he was still officially registered in Bochum, Germany, after that. His German wife and his daughter, whom he visited repeatedly after his crimes, still live in Germany. After entering Germany out of his own will, he was arrested at the airport of Düsseldorf, Germany. | |     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. | |  |  | | period of charges : | | | 01.06.1992 - 01.10.1992 | | | judgement period : | | | 26.09.1997 - 12.12.2000 | | | charges : | | | Genocide | | | profile last modified : | | | 18.07.2007 |
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