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| |  | | Sredoje Lukic | | | context : | Former Yugoslavia  | | judgement place : | ICTY (Yugoslavia) | | status : | On trial | | particulars : | Trial began on 9th July 2008 before the ICTY | | position : | Police agent in Višegrad in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a member of a paramilitary group of Bosnian Serbs called the |
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| | | | Sredoje Lukić, a Bosnian Serb, was born on 5th April 1961 in Rujiste, a village in the municipality of Višegrad in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He worked as a police officer in Višegrad.
When the war broke out, was integrated into a local paramilitary group made up of Bosnian Serbs and led by his cousin, Milan Lukić (see "related cases"). The group, whose members were known as "Beli Orlovi" (White Eagles) or "Osvetnici" (“The Judges”), allegedly participated in collaboration with local police and military units, in a large-scale ethnic cleansing campaign, aimed at eradicating the Muslim population in the region.
Višegrad is a small town in south-eastern Bosnia near the Serbian border. The Muslim population constituted two-thirds of the total population of Višegrad before the war. During the conflict between Bosnia to Serbia from 1992 to 1995, the city represented a significant strategic area. This was due to its location on a major route linking Belgrade to Sarajevo and the local hydro-electric dam which, in addition to supplying electricity to the region, helps regulate the level of the Drina River which marked a large part of the Bosnian-Serbian border.
As soon as the conflict erupted in April 1992, the city was besieged by the Yugoslav People's Army. The Army was formally withdrawn on 19th May of that year and the Serbs of the region seized power, forming "the Serbian town of Višegrad." They were allegedly involved in an extensive campaign of ethnic cleansing against Muslims, who then represented the majority of the town’s population.
According to the indictment, during this campaign from 1992 to 1994, many Muslim civilians in the region were killed, interned or displaced during a campaign between 1992 and 1994. Many houses were looted and destroyed, along with two mosques in the city.
Sredoje Lukić is accused of taking part in this campaign between 7th June 1992 and 10th December 1994, along with his cousin Milan Lukić and other members of his paramilitary group. They are accused of committing acts of persecution against non-Serb civilians in Bosnia, and particularly against Muslims.
Lukić is accused of taking part in the torching of a house on 14th June 1992, during which about 70 Muslims, including women, children and elderly people, died. The victims’ property and valuables were stolen and the victims were locked in a room which was allegedly set alight using incendiary weapons. It is also alleged that Lukić fired on those who tried to escape through the windows, killing almost the entire group.
A virtually identical scenario was repeated a few weeks later in Bikana, a village near Višegrad. Lukić and others allegedly used force against a group of an estimated 70 Bosnian Muslims in a house in the village. It is alleged that they blocked entrances before they ignited the house and there were no survivors.
Lukić also allegedly regularly took part in violence against prisoners in a detention camp located in the Uzamnica barracks in Višegrad.
Finally, according to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Lukić and others allegedly abducted women from places including the Vilina Vlas hotel, whom they reportedly subjected to repeated rape and torture.
After having fled to Russia, Lukić was handed over voluntarily to the ICTY on 16th September 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 : | | | Serbia and montenegro | | | date of birth : | | | 05.04.1961 | | | last time seen : | | | The Hague, Netherlands | | | period of charges : | | | 07.06.1992 - 10.10.1994 | | | judgement period : | | | 09.07.2008 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 14.09.2008 |
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