Momcilo Perisic

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Momcilo Perisic

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentenced on Tuesday ex-Yugoslavian army chief Momcilo Perisic, 67, to 27 years in prison for his implication in the murder of Bosnian Muslim by Bosnian Serbs including Srebrenica massacre in 1995.
Perisic is the highest-ranking officer of the former Yugoslavian regime to be sentenced at ICTY, and was accused of 12 counts related to war crimes, and crimes against humanity, including at Srebrenica. The presiding judge, Bakone Maloto, said that he knew about the Bosnian Serbs’ actions and that they included crimes against civilian population.
Even so, he gave the Bosnian Serbs personnel, ammunition, and logistical support, knowing that they would be used against civilian population. 7,500 shells and 25 million infantry bullets were given the Bosnian Serb army and the Republic of Krajina by the Yugoslavian army.
He was found guilty of four charges related to Srebrenica, and to the 44-month siege of Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia Herzegovina, but was cleared of the accusation of exterminating the population of Srebrenica, on the account that he could not have predicted that the Bosnian Serb would exterminate the population. However, he was accused of providing help to the Bosnian Serbs even after he saw the massacre they have created in Srebrenica.
Perisic was a close collaborator of the former president of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, who died in prison in 2006. In May, prosecution asked that he be sentenced to life in prison.
He is the only senior Yugoslavian official to be sentenced for the killing at Srebrenica, where 8,000 people died in 1995. Other 18 defendants are involved in this gruesome case, all of them being Bosnian Serbs, including Ratko Mladic, the most wanted man by the ICTY, apprehended in May by Serbian authorities.

Perisic at ICTY

The judge asserted that some collaborative relationship existed between Mladic and Perisic, but that evidence cannot show whether the former was submitted to the latter, given that Mladic was some sort of independent throughout the war.
ICTY sentenced other of Perisic’s former subordinates, like Stanislav Galic, sentenced on appeal to life in prison in November 2006.
Perisic’s lawyer announced that his client was disappointed in the sentence and would file an appeal.
Extraditing former war criminals was the most difficult task for the new leadership of Serbia, which wants to lead the country to an admission to the European Union. There were voices that said that Serbian officials were protecting some of these people, who were able to hide for more than a decade.
As soon as the last one was delivered by Belgrade to the international authorities, Serbia thought that its path toward EU was free, but it wasn’t, because the Kosovo file is still to be solved, and the situation seems more difficult than the extradition of war criminals, because it is about a province that the Serbians consider their civilization craddle, and which proclaimed independence in 2008.
Former president of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic was delivered in 2001, and died in prison in 2006. During trial, Milosevic was defiant and kept on refusing to acknowledge the court.
Radovan Karadzic, former president of Srpska Republic in Bosnia Herzegovina, was delivered in 1998, and Ratko Mladic was extradited in May 2011. Goran Hadzic, leader of the Serbs in Croatia, was delivered to ICTY on July 20, 2011.

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