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 ...

lawyer and author. He is best-known for being the director of the Serbian NGO "Veritas" with stated aim to document the history of the unrecognized

quasi-state A quasi-state (sometimes referred to as a state-like entity or formatively a proto-state) is a political entity that does not represent a fully autonomous sovereign state with its own institutions. The precise definition of ''quasi-state'' in po ...

Republic of Serbian Krajina The Republic of Serbian Krajina or Serb Republic of Krajina ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Република Српска Крајина, Republika Srpska Krajina, separator=" / ", ; abbr. РСК / RSK), known as the Serbian Krajina ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српск� ...

and locate missing victims of the

Croatian War of Independence The Croatian War of Independence) and (rarely) "War in Krajina" ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Рат у Крајини, Rat u Krajini) are used. was an armed conflict fought in Croatia from 1991 to 1995 between Croats, Croat forces loyal to the Governmen ...

Early life and education

Štrbac was born in Raštević, near

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

PR Croatia The Socialist Republic of Croatia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Hrvatska, Социјалистичка Република Хрватска), commonly abbreviated as SR Croatia and referred to as simply Croatia, was a ...

, which was part of

Yugoslavia , common_name = Yugoslavia , life_span = 1918–19921941–1945: World War II in Yugoslavia#Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Axis occupation , p1 = Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia , flag_p ...

at the time. He earned a degree in law from the

University of Zagreb The University of Zagreb (, ) is a public university, public research university in Zagreb, Croatia. It is the largest Croatian university and one of the oldest continuously operating universities in Europe. The University of Zagreb and the Unive ...

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 city in Croatia. It is situated on the Adriatic Sea, at the northwestern part of Ravni Kotari region. Zadar ...

. During the

Breakup of Yugoslavia After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, the constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia split apart in the early 1990s. Unresolved issues from the breakup caused a series of inter-ethnic Yugoslav ...

, 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 tribun ...

Carla del Ponte Carla Del Ponte (born February 9, 1947) is a Swiss former Chief Prosecutor of two United Nations international criminal law tribunals. A former Swiss attorney general, she was appointed prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the f ...

, in preparing indictments against Croatian generals in the '' Trial of Gotovina et al''. 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

Belgrade Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...

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