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In the News (Thu 23 May 13)

  
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Obrenovic is charged with complicity in genocide, crimes against humanity (extermination, murder and persecution on political, racial and religious grounds) and violations of the laws or customs of war.
Obrenovic is not accused of "genocidal intent", but rather with "knowledge that Ratko Mladic and others had intended to destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".
In summer 1995, Obrenovic held the rank of major and as Zvornik Brigade chief of staff was responsible for monitoring, controlling and organising the activities of all units within the brigade zone of responsibility.
www.iwpr.net /archive/tri/tri_217_1_eng.txt   (1135 words)

  
 Tuesday, April 17, 2001
At the time of his arrest, Obrenovic was serving as a major in Bosnia’s Serb Republic, dealing regularly with U.S. peacekeepers in the area, according to Graham Blewitt, assistant chief prosecutor for The Hague War Crimes Tribunal.
Obrenovic was flown under heavy guard from the U.S. headquarters airfield at Eagle Base near Tuzla Sunday night, he said.
Obrenovic, the acting commander of a Bosnian Serb brigade, was indicted for allegedly participating in the July 1995 attack on Srebrenica, an enclave with 60,000 residents in eastern Bosnia that was then under United Nations protection and guarded by a Dutch garrison.
www.stripes.com /01/apr01/ed041701c.html   (753 words)

  
 Institute for War and Peace Reporting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Obrenovic was chief of staff and acting commander of the Zvornik brigade in July 1995 when Bosnian Serb forces overran the UN safe haven of Srebrenica.
Obrenovic suspected his mechanics were being pulled from the front as a personal favour, so he asked who had sent the message.
Obrenovic says that a month after the executions, in August 1995, he saw the man responsible for planning the executions, General Radislav Krstic, and expressed his disapproval of the operation.
www.iwpr.net /index.pl?archive/tri/tri_313_3_eng.txt   (1157 words)

  
 Mladic "Ordered" Bosnian Massacres   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Obrenovic, 40, who was chief of staff of the Bosnian Serb army’s Zvornik brigade at the time the killings were carried out in July 1995, began giving testimony as a Hague prosecution witness on October 2.
Obrenovic, who was chief of staff and acting commander of the Zvornik brigade, said he first became aware of the plan to kill all Muslim prisoners on the evening of July 13, 1995.
When Obrenovic opposed that decision and suggested that they should be taken to a prisoner-of-war camp in Bijeljina, Drago Nikolic told him that orders to kill the prisoners had come from Mladic, commander of the Bosnian Serb army.
www.freeserbia.net /Articles/2003/Mladic.html   (580 words)

  
 CNN.com - Srebrenica suspect denies charges - April 19, 2001
Dragan Obrenovic, who was detained at the weekend, pleaded not guilty when he appeared before The Hague's war crimes tribunal on Wednesday.
Obrenovic faces five charges in connection with the massacre of more than 5,000 Muslim men and boys in what was then a United Nation's so-called safe haven.
Obrenovic is among 38 suspects currently held at the detention center of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/04/18/hague.court   (584 words)

  
 The Hindu : Dragan Obrenovic to be transferred to CTFY
NATO officials have said that Dragan Obrenovic, the Bosnian Serb arrested on Sunday for war crimes committed in the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995, will be transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia (CTFY) at The Hague in the Netherlands during the course of the week.
Obrenovic was arrested on a sealed indictment for crimes he is alleged to have committed between July and November 1995.
Ari Fleischer, praised Obrenovic's arrest saying that the 1995 attack on Srebrenica represented ``one of the darkest episodes in the recent tragedy that befell Bosnia.'' He said blame should also be borne by Radovan Karazdic, the Bosnian Serb political leader during the war and the Bosnian Serb supreme military commander, General Ratko Mladic.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2001/04/19/stories/0319000j.htm   (397 words)

  
 CBSNews.com: Print This Story
Dragan Obrenovic also is accused of trying to cover up the largest massacre in Europe since World War II by exhuming the bodies of victims and reburying them in mass graves.
Obrenovic, 38, made his first appearance before the U.N. war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia since his arrest Sunday in Zvornik, Bosnia, by NATO-led peacekeeping forces.
According to the indictment, Obrenovic was the acting commander of the Zvornik Brigade, which rounded up victims in 50-60 buses and took them to execution sites, including schools, soccer fields, a cultural center and a dam.
uttm.com /stories/2001/04/16/world/printable285837.shtml   (524 words)

  
 Bosnian Serb gets 17 years for Srebrenica massacre
Dragan Obrenovic, one of two former commanders to admit his role in the Europe's worst massacre since World War Two in a plea agreement in May, pleaded guilty at the UN court to one count of crimes against humanity the same month.
Obrenovic's fellow accused Momir Nikolic was jailed for 27 years earlier this month for his role in the slaughter of Muslims after Bosnian Serb forces overran the Srebrenica enclave towards the end of the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
Obrenovic and Nikolic were not the first men to be sentenced for their role in Srebrenica by the court.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1038121/posts   (537 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Obrenovic (Yugoslavian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Obrenovic or Obrenovich[both: Obre´nuvich] Pronunciation Key, Serbian dynasty.
Its founder, Milos Obrenovic (see Milos), was the first modern Serbian ruler.
Milan's son Alexander, king of Serbia, the last ruling Obrenovic, was assassinated in 1903; on his death the Karadjordjevic dynasty again came into power.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/Obrenvc.html   (188 words)

  
 Trial Watch - Dragan Obrenovic
Dragan Obrenovic was indicted by the Office of the Prosecutor on 9 April 2001 for various crimes: complicity in genocide, persecutions and extermination.
Obrenovic and the Prosecution reached a plea bargain whereby Obrenovic was to plead guilty to one of the counts of crimes against humanity (that of persecutions, punishable under articles 5 let.
Even though the support lent by Dragan Obrenovic to the realisation of the project was limited, his inaction during those critical, devastating days, had a strong influence over his collaborators and subordinates.
www.trial-ch.org /trialwatch/profiles/en/legalprocedures/p233.html   (646 words)

  
 CNN.com - Bosnia genocide suspect held - April 15, 2001
A statement from the Secretary General George Robertson, posted on the NATO website on Sunday, said the Stabilisation Force (SFOR) had detained Dragan Obrenovic, who was under a "sealed indictment" for crimes committed between July and November 1995.
It added that Obrenovic, former chief of staff of a Bosnian Serb unit from the northeastern town of Zvornik, was now being processed for transfer to The Hague.
A spokeswoman for the U.N. mission in Sarajevo said the only information she had was a statement from Bosnian Serb police in the eastern town of Zvornik that Obrenovic had been "abducted" on Sunday in nearby town of Kozluk.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/04/15/warcrimes.arrest   (453 words)

  
 Trial Watch - Dragan Obrenovic
Dragan Obrenovic was born on 12 April 1963 in the village of Rogatica, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
In his role as Chief of Staff, Dragan Obrenovic was in charge of the planning, control, supervision, organisation and execution of the overall operation.
Between 1st August 1995 and 1st November 1995, approximately, soldiers under orders from Obrenovic took part in a large scale, organised operation, the aim of which was to cover up the murders and executions committed in the zone under the responsibility of the brigades from Zvornik and Bratunac.
www.trial-ch.org /trialwatch/profiles/en/facts/p233.html?AC=1   (751 words)

  
 Milan Obrenovic
During his reign he relied mainly on the army, and therefore he was constantly working on improving its strength.
Because of the Russian support to Bulgaria, which culminated in Sanstefan contract, Milan Obrenovic changed his orientation to Austro-Hungary.
In return Austro-Hungary guarantied him remaining on the throne and diplomatic assistance to help Serbia gain territories further toward south, which was understood as betrayal of national interests by the public.
www.antikviteti.co.yu /arhiva/00004e.html   (275 words)

  
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Obrenovic was chief of staff and acting commander of the Zvornik brigade
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www.haverford.edu /relg/sells/srebrenica/obrenovicreport.htm   (912 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Alexander Obrenovic
In 1889 his father, King Milan, abdicated and proclaimed him king of Serbia under a regency until he should attain his majority at eighteen years of age.
House of Obrenovic The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest.
The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) in many ways represents the sum of knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alexander-Obrenovic   (1667 words)

  
 CNN.com - Srebrenica suspect to enter plea - April 18, 2001
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- A Bosnian Serb commander accused of taking part in the Srebrenica massacre is to enter his plea at The Hague war crimes tribunal on Wednesday.
Dragan Obrenovic has been charged with helping in the massacre of more than 5,000 Muslim men and boys in what was then an United Nation's so-called safe haven.
Obrenovic was arrested by NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) troops on Sunday near Zvornik in Bosnia's Serb republic, and will make his first appearance before the U.N. tribunal at 3 p.m.
cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/04/17/bosnia.arrest   (471 words)

  
 Serbia Info / Encyclopedia / Landscape: The beauty it took centuries to create
Long ago, the oldest monument of Serb literacy, The Miroslav Gospel (written in the 12th century), together with other relics, found its way to the Serb monastery of Chilandrion, on Mount Athos in Greece.
Later, it was returned to the fatherland, as a gift to the King Aleksandar Obrenovic of Serbia.
In the horrors of World War I, it was taken all the way to Corfu in the saddle-bags of the Serb army.
www.serbia-info.com /enc/beauty.html   (420 words)

  
 Obrenovic
(Tab A to "Annex A" to the "Joint Motion for Consideration of Plea Agreement Between Dragan Obrenovic and the Office of the Prosecutor")
I first became aware of the Muslim prisoners coming up to the Zvornik area in the evening of the 13th July 1995.
I was upset at not being able to attend.
www.haverford.edu /relg/sells/srebrenica/Obrenovic.htm   (4935 words)

  
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