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| |  | | Slobodan Davidovic | | | context : | Former Yugoslavia  | | judgement place : | Croatia | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Found guilty in Croatia of war crimes and sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment | | position : | Member of the paramilitary group ‘Scorpions’ |
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| | | | Slobodan Davidovic, a Croatian serb born in 1953, was a member of the ‚Scorpions’, a formation founded in the early 1990s as a paramilitary group widely believed to have enjoyed the protection of Serbian security services. The group was active in Bosnia during the 1992-95 war and in Kosovo in the late 1990s. Its members are believed to have taken part in the capture of Srebrenica and the killing of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys in July 1995.
It was alleged that in 1991, at the start of Croatia's independence war against rebel Serbs, Davidovic had tortured Croatian soldiers in the settlement of Bobovo near Ninkovci.
Slobodan Davidovic was further incriminated by a video tape filmed by a members of the ‚Scorpions’ which became public in summer 2005. The 20-minute video shows several members of the Scorpions unit ordering six young Bosnian prisoners, dressed in civilian clothes, from the back of a lorry. The victims are marched into woodland and shot one by one.
After the exhuming of the victims' bodies, DNA analyses identified Azmir Alispahic, 17, Safet Fejzic, also 17, and Sadik Saltic, 36, while the families recognized Smail Ibrahimovic and Fadil Salkic in the footage. The identity of the sixth victim remains unknown.
Slobodan Davidovic was arrested in eastern Croatia in June 2005 soon after the footage was shown at the trial of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic (see "related cases") at The Hague. | |     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. | |  |  | | last time seen : | | | Croatia | | | judgement period : | | | 29.12.2005 - 29.12.2005 | | | charges : | | | War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 04.04.2007 |
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