Savo Štrbac ( sr-cyr, Саво Штрбац; born 1949) is a

Croatian Serb The Serbs of Croatia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", Срби у Хрватској, Srbi u Hrvatskoj) or Croatian Serbs ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", хрватски Срби, hrvatski Srbi) constitute the largest national minority in Croa ...

lawyer and author. He is best-known for being the director of the Serbian NGO "Veritas" that documents with the history of the

Republic of Serbian Krajina The Republic of Serbian Krajina or Serb Republic of Krajina ( sh, Република Српска Крајина, italics=no / or РСК / ''RSK'', ), known as the Serbian Krajina ( / ) or simply Krajina, was a self-proclaimed Serb proto-state, ...

and locates missing

war War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular o ...

victims.

Early life and education

Štrbac was born in Raštević, near

Benkovac Benkovac () is a town in the interior of Zadar County, Croatia. Geography Benkovac is located where the plain of Ravni Kotari and the karstic plateau of Bukovica meet, 20 km from the town of Biograd na Moru and 30 km from Zadar. The ...

, People’s Republic of Croatia. He earned a degree in law from the

University of Zagreb The University of Zagreb ( hr, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, ; la, Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis) is the largest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of ...

Career

From 1977 to 1990, he worked as a judge of the Municipal Court in

and of the District Court in

Zadar Zadar ( , ; historically known as Zara (from Venetian and Italian: ); see also other names), is the oldest continuously inhabited Croatian city. It is situated on the Adriatic Sea, at the northwestern part of Ravni Kotari region. Zadar serv ...

. During the

Breakup of Yugoslavia The breakup of Yugoslavia occurred as a result of a series of political upheavals and conflicts during the early 1990s. After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...

, he was involved in the work of the RSK Commission for Prisoner Exchanges, at first as a Commission member and from 1993 as its chairman. The same year, he also became Secretary of the RSK. Since 1994, he worked with the now-former chief prosecutor at the

ICTY The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to try their perpetrators. The tribunal ...

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, in preparing indictments against Croatian generals in the ''

Trial of Gotovina et al The Trial of Gotovina et al. was a war crimes trial held from March 2008 until (including the appeals process) November 2012 before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), set up in 1993. The ICTY indicted Croatian A ...

''. After the convictions of Ante Gotovina and Mlden Markač were reversed, he stated that "Croats gave huge money for generals' freedom".

Personal life

He has two children and lives in

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Works

* ''Ravni kotari - Maslenica 1993'', Informaciono-dokumentacioni centar „Veritas“ * ''Krvavi spetembar u Lici - 1993'', Informaciono-dokumentacioni centar „Veritas“, 1996 * ''Miljevački plato - juni 1992.'', Informaciono-dokumentacioni centar „Veritas“, 1996 * ''Srpska zapadna Slavonija - maj 1995'', Informaciono-dokumentacioni centar „Veritas“, Svetigora, 1997 * ''Srpska Krajina - avgust 1995'', Informaciono-dokumentacioni centar „Veritas“, Svetigora, 1997 * ''Nestala lica na području Hrvatske'', Informaciono-dokumentacioni centar „Veritas“, Art-print, Banjaluka * ''Sudbine ljudi sa potrežnih lista'', Informaciono-dokumentacioni centar „Veritas“, Belgrade, 1999 * ''Zvona Svetog Ćirita'', Informaciono-dokumentacioni centar „Veritas“, Banjaluka, 2000 * ''Zvona sudbine'', Informaciono-dokumentacioni centar „Veritas“, Banjaluka, 2005 * * * *

References

1949 births Living people People from Benkovac Serbs of Croatia Yugoslav judges Serbian politicians Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb alumni Republic of Serbian Krajina 20th-century Serbian lawyers {{Serbia-politician-stub