Mile Mrkšić

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Mile Mrkšić was a Serb military officer and Yugoslav Army colonel who became known for his role in the Croatian War of Independence and was later convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

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instanceOf military officer
person
war criminal
allegiance Republic of Serbian Krajina NERFINISHED
Yugoslav People’s Army NERFINISHED
appealJudgmentDate 2009-05-05
causeOfDeath illness
charge crimes against humanity
war crimes
chargedBy International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia NERFINISHED
conflict Croatian War of Independence NERFINISHED
convictedBy International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia NERFINISHED
convictedOf inhumane acts
murder
persecutions on political, racial and religious grounds
torture
war crimes against Croat and other non-Serb civilians
countryOfBirth Yugoslavia NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Serbia NERFINISHED
Yugoslavia NERFINISHED
countryOfDeath Portugal NERFINISHED
dateOfBirth 1947-07-20
dateOfDeath 2015-08-16
ethnicGroup Serb
familyName Mrkšić NERFINISHED
fullName Mile Mrkšić NERFINISHED
givenName Mile NERFINISHED
involvedIn siege of Vukovar NERFINISHED
judgmentDate 2007-09-27
legalProceeding IT-95-13/1 (Vukovar Hospital case) NERFINISHED
militaryBranch Serbian Army of Krajina NERFINISHED
Yugoslav People’s Army NERFINISHED
militaryRank colonel
nationality Serbian
notableEvent Ovčara massacre NERFINISHED
notableFor command responsibility for crimes at Ovčara farm near Vukovar in 1991
role in the Battle of Vukovar
placeOfBirth Vrginmost NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Lisbon NERFINISHED
placeOfDetention Portugal NERFINISHED
positionHeld commander of JNA forces at Vukovar
commander of the Yugoslav People’s Army Operational Group South
sentence 20 years imprisonment
surrenderDate 2002-05-15
surrenderedTo International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia NERFINISHED
trialStart 2005-10-11

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