Milan Kovačević, nicknamed Mićo ( sr-Cyrl, Милан Ковачевић; 1941 – 1998), was the president of the executive committee of the Municipal Assembly of
Prijedor from January 1991 to March 1993. He also served as the vice president of the Municipality of Prijedor Crisis Staff after the Crisis Staff took over control of the town of
Prijedor in April 1992. He was an anesthesiologist by profession and most recently served as the director of the Prijedor Medical Center, after his resignation as president of the executive committee in March 1993.
As the vice president of the Crisis Staff, Kovačević played a key role in the crimes that occurred in the Municipality of Prijedor between April and August 1992, most importantly the establishment and operation of
concentration camps targeting
Bosnian Muslims and
Bosnian Croats
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, including the
Omarska,
Keraterm and
Trnopolje camps.
ICTY Indictment
Kovačević was
indicted in 1997 by the
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
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(ICTY) on
genocide, complicity to commit genocide and several counts of
crimes against humanity
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, violations of the
laws of war and grave breaches of the
Geneva conventions of 1949. He was captured, together with co-accused
Simo Drljača
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, by British
Special Air Service
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(SAS) troops on 10 July 1997 in
SFOR's
Operation Tango
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.
[Accessed 27 August 2022. For a dramatization of the two captures see, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs9eMb-NNI4&list=TLPQMjcwODIwMjJgb8VKLEO2hQ&index=4]
He died of natural causes in detention in 1998.
References
External links
ICTY Amended Indictment
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People indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Serbian politicians
1941 births
1998 deaths
Serbian people who died in prison custody