Milan Kovačević, nicknamed Mićo ( sr-Cyrl, Милан Ковачевић; 1941 – 1998), was the president of the executive committee of the Municipal Assembly of

Prijedor Prijedor ( sr-cyrl, Приједор, ) is a city in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it had a population of 80,916 inhabitants within its administrative limits. Prijedor is situated in the northwestern part of the Bosanska ...

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

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

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targeting

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and

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, including the Omarska, Keraterm and Trnopolje camps.

ICTY Indictment

Kovačević was

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in 1997 by the

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(ICTY) on

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, complicity to commit genocide and several counts of

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, violations of the

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and grave breaches of the

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of 1949. He was captured, together with co-accused Simo Drljača, by British

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(SAS) troops on 10 July 1997 in

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's Operation Tango.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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kovacevic, Milan People indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Serbian politicians 1941 births 1998 deaths Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbian people who died in prison custody