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| |  | | Vujadin Popovic | | | context : | Former Yugoslavia  | | judgement place : | ICTY (Yugoslavia) | | status : | On trial | | particulars : | He voluntarily surrendered on 14 April 2005 and was transferred to the ICTY; his trial began on 14 July 2006; closing arguments from 7-11 September 2009 | | position : | Commander for Security of the Drina Corps |
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| | | | Vujadin Popovic, was born on 14 March 1957 in the village of Popovici, Sekovici Municipality (Bosnia and Herzegovina). During the time period relevant to the events described in the indictment, Vujadin Popovic was a Lieutenant Colonel and was the Assistant Commander of Security on the staff of the Drina Corps of the Bosnian Serb Army (VRS). He was present and on duty in the Drina Corps zone of responsibility, which included Srebrenica, Potocari, Bratunac and Zvornik, from 11 July to 31 August 1995.
Vujadin Popovic, by virtue of his position as Assistant Commander of Security for the Drina Corps, had responsibility for dealing with Bosnian Muslim prisoners from Srebrenica from 11 July 1995 until 1 November 1995.
According to the indictment Vujadin Popovic, together with other VRS and Ministry of the Interior (MUP) officers and units, was a member of and knowingly participated in a Joint Criminal Enterprise, the common purpose of which was: to forcibly transfer the women and children from the Srebrenica enclave to Kladanj, on 12 July 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 from 12 July 1995 until and about 19 July 1995. The last known primary burial of Srebrenica victims occurred on or about 19 July 1995 in Glogova. The initial plan was to summarily execute more than 1000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys, aged 16-60, who were separated from the group of Bosnian Muslims in Potocari on 12 and 13 July. On 12 July, this plan was broadened to include the summary execution of over 6000 men and boys, aged 16 to 60, who were captured from the column of Bosnian Muslim men escaping the Srebrenica enclave on 12 July through about 19 July 1995. Most of these men and boys from the column were captured along the Bratunac/Milici road on 13 July 1995.
The Joint Criminal Enterprise, of which Vujadin Popovic was a member and a key 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.
In the several days following the attack on Srebrenica, the VRS 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 out of the enclave. According to the indictment, Vujadin Popovic committed, planned, instigated, ordered and otherwise aided and abetted in the planning, preparation and execution of the charged crimes.
He voluntary surrendered on 14 April 2005 and was transferred to International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on the same day. | |     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 : | | | 14.03.1957 | | | 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 : | | | 15.12.2009 |
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