
	Where results make sense

Topic: Tihomir Blaskic

Related Topics

ICTY

Tihomir

William Thurston

Ludwig Quidde

Miroslav Klose

Flores

Ludwig van Beethoven

Gurung

Pool Malebo

Flores, Guatemala

In the News (Mon 21 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Case Information Sheet - Blaskic case
		Tihomir Blaskic was originally indicted together with Dario Kordic, Mario Cerkez, Zlatko Aleksovski, Ivan Santicand Pero Skopljak (see Kordic and Cerkez and Aleksovski case information sheets).
		Blaskic filed a notice of appeal against the Judgement and sentence on 17 March 2000.On 29 July 2004, the Appeals Judgement reversed the majority of the Trial Chamber’s convictions and sentenced Tihomir Blaskic to nine years’ imprisonment (see Press Release No. 875).
		Anto Nobilo, one of the lawyers for General Blaskic, was found in contempt of the Tribunal and fined NLG 10,000 (4545 euros) for disclosing the identity and occupation of a protected witness, who had testified for the prosecution in the Aleksovski trial, during the trial of Blaskic.
	www.un.org /icty/glance/blaskic.htm (674 words)

	THE PROSECUTOR v. TIHOMIR BLASKIC [2000] ICTY 4 (3 March 2000)
		Tihomir Blaskic was appointed commander of the HVO armed forces headquarters in central Bosnia on 27 June 1992 and occupied the position throughout the period covered by the indictment.
		Under count 1, Tihomir Blaskic is accused of a crime against humanity for persecution [17] of the Muslim civilian population of Bosnia[18] throughout the municipalities of Vitez, Busovaca, Kiseljak and Zenica on political, racial or religious grounds from May 1992 to January 1994[19].
		Miro Andric, along with Tihomir Blaskic and Milivoj Petkovic, represented the HVO at meetings in Vitez on 28 and 29 April 1993 and during negotiations with the ECMM and the ABiH on the establishment of a joint command[181].
	www.worldlii.org /int/cases/ICTY/2000/4.html (15725 words)

	Blaskic to be released
		Tihomir Blaskic expressed joy and gratitude upon learning that his sentence was to be cut by 36 years.
		It could be that the new evidence in the case of Blaskic might result in a heavier sentence for Kordic for his role in the Ahmici massacre.
		Ratka Blaskic was again in court to hear the appeal decision, and was overjoyed at the news.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/07/29/cache/290488.html (576 words)

	Second Amended Indictment Against Tihomir Blaskic. ICTY, 25 April 1997
		Tihomir BLASKIC, son of Ivo, was born on 2 November 1960 in the village of Brestovsko, municipality of Kiseljak, in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		Tihomir BLASKIC, since the establishment of the HVO on 8 April 1992, was instrumental in the establishment and operation of the HVO in the Central Bosnia Operative Zone.
		Tihomir BLASKIC's authority and duties, as an HVO Commander, are set forth in the Decree on the Armed Forces of the Croatian Community of Herceg-Bosna, dated 17 October 1992.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /ICTY/BlaskicIndict.htm (2324 words)

	News Story \| Serbianna.com
		Blaskic was cleared of responsibility for the Ahmici massacre last week by the U.N. war crimes court in The Hague, which slashed his 45-year sentence on appeal to nine years for more than a dozen war crimes, leading to his release this week.
		Blaskic was the fifth of nine Croats originally charged to be cleared of either planning or executing the crime.
		Blaskic may have not planned and ordered the massacre, said Pezer, sitting in the shade on a humid summer day in front of the house to which he and his wife returned in 1998.
	www.serbianna.com /news/story/667.html (612 words)

	How Tudjman and Susak sacrificed Blaskic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tihomir Blaskic, former JNA officer, was instated at the end of 1992 as the HVO (Croatian military component in BiH) commander for the Lasvanska Valley, as a sort of good military beaurocrat who would "cover" the actual military and political powers in that region.
		Dario Kordic, and not Tihomir Blaskic, the political pillar of HDZ in central Bosnia, was favored by Mate Boban and Gojko Susak.
		Blaskic was told several times, including at the meeting from March 28, 1996, that with this decision, the Croatian president had attempted to protect him from the powers that be in Bosnia Herzegovina.
	www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/july00/hed390.shtml (3434 words)

	UN court slashes sentence for accused Bosnian Croat war criminal. 29/07/2004. ABC News Online
		Blaskic, 43, showed no emotion as the sentence was read out but his family and supporters in the public gallery burst out in applause.
		Blaskic's convictions for ordering attacks on Muslim civilians in the central Bosnian Lasva valley, including the horrific massacre of over 100 people in the village of Ahmici on April 16, 1993, were all quashed.
		Blaskic remains convicted of cruel and inhumane treatment for ordering the use of detainees to dig trenches and using some as human shields to protect his headquarters in Vitez, central Bosnia, during a period of heavy shelling.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200407/s1165041.htm (657 words)

	Croatian General Is Given 45 Years For War Crimes
		PARIS, March 3—Tihomir Blaskic, a Croatian general accused of overseeing the killings of hundreds of civilians during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, was found guilty today by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague and sentenced to 45 years in prison--the toughest penalty handed down by the court in its 6 1/2-year history.
		Blaskic had argued that communication difficulties and breaks in the chain of command had made him unaware that war crimes were being committed, but the court rejected that defense and held Blaskic responsible not only for allowing ethnic cleansing but also for not acting to prevent it.
		Blaskic, who has been in custody since he surrendered in 1996, was Croatia's supreme commander in Bosnia-Herzegovina and controlled Croatian and Bosnian-Croatian forces in the Lasva Valley, an area northwest of Sarajevo that was home to both ethnic Croats and Bosnian Muslims.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/WPcap/2000-03/04/074r-030400-idx.html (573 words)

	Croatian General Gets 45 Years for War Crimes (washingtonpost.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tihomir Blaskic is led into court Friday in The Hague to hear the verdict against him.
		Friday, March 3, 2000; 1:00 PM PARIS, March 3 — Tihomir Blaskic, a Croatian general who oversaw civilian killings, forced relocations and destruction of Muslim property during the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict, was convicted and sentenced today to 45 years in prison by the United Nations tribunal in The Hague.
		Blaskic's sentence, the longest yet imposed by the tribunal's judges in the body's seven-year existence, puts the highest-ranking commander so far in the former Yugoslavia behind bars for war crimes.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/pmextra/march00/03/A3503-2000Mar3.html (377 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| General guilty of Bosnia war crimes
		Blaskic, the highest-ranking military official to be brought before the court so far, was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
		Blaskic, 39, was in charge of the HVO, the Bosnian Croat army that fought a bitter war against Bosnian Government forces.
		In all, Blaskic was found guilty on all but one of 20 counts of crimes against humanity, war crimes and grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, which seek to protect civilians caught in warfare.
	news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /2/low/europe/664686.stm (489 words)

	CBSNews.com: Print This Story
		Blaskic's sentence reflected an apparent trend at the tribunal, under Jorda's leadership, to hand down exceptionally long terms against defendants deemed to have borne command responsibility for the crimes committed.
		Blaskic, 39, was commander of Croat fighters in central Bosnia during the war.
		Blaskic was convicted of 20 counts of crimes against humanity, war crimes and grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, which seek to protect civilians caught in warfare.
	uttm.com /stories/2000/03/03/world/printable167526.shtml (449 words)

	Croat general's conviction reversed \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Tihomir Blaskic, 44, who has already spent eight years and four months in a tribunal cell, will be immediately freed.
		Blaskic has been at the center of the U.N. tribunal's most complex, longest-running case, with his trial lasting two years and the appeal more than four.
		Blaskic showed little emotion when the verdict was read, but his wife, Ratka Blaskic, and the couple's three young children, who were in the public gallery, shrieked with joy, according to observers in the courtroom.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040730/news_1n30bosnia.html (494 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Blaskic Trial: The Defence Opens its Case Tribunal Update 92: The Last Two Weeks in The Hague (TU No 92, 12-Sep-98) General Tihomir Blaskic's American defence counsel Russel Hayman made his plans very clear as he closed his introductory speech at the opening of the defence case.
		The "time" Blaskic was wrong for is the period from autumn 1992 to spring 1994 when, according to the indictment, the Bosnian Croat forces under his command committed a series of grave war crimes against the Bosniak (Muslim) population of the Lasva Valley in Central Bosnia.
		Blaskic's authority to sanction HVO soldiers--asserts the defence--"was limited to matters pertaining to military discipline, such as deserting or lost weapons".
	www.iwpr.net /archive/tri/tri_092_1_eng.txt (1614 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Blaskic is due to appear before the tribunal Wednesday and will be asked to plead guilty or not guilty to the charges against him, a spokeswoman said.
		Blaskic and five other Bosnian Croat leaders were charged with various atrocities, including an alleged massacre at the village of Ahmici, near Vitez.
		Blaskic's surrender was clinched in weekend talks between U.S. Defense Secretary William J. Perry and Croatian Defense Minister Gojko Susak.
	www.members.tripod.com /~UnconqueredBosnia/Blaskic1.html (309 words)

	startercontenttemplate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tihomir Blaskic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague yesterday.
		Picture: AP The court reduced the sentence of Gen Tihomir Blaskic, 43, to nine years from 45, meaning he could be released immediately if the court's president accepts his motion for early release filed after the judgment was issued.
		Blaskic voluntarily surrendered to the UN court on April 1, 1996.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/World2.asp?ArticleID=127573 (319 words)

	UN Tribunal Cuts Bosnian Croat General’s Sentence :. News :. THE CHECHEN TIMES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The UN war crimes court today cut former Bosnian Croat General Tihomir Blaskic’s 45-year jail term to nine years on appeal after clearing him of several charges.
		Blaskic was convicted in 2000 for crimes against humanity, war crimes, and breaches of the Geneva Conventions committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
		Blaskic’s lawyers had argued that Croatian intelligence documents discovered after Blaskic’s trial exonerate him and implicate others.
	www.chechentimes.org /en/news?id=19828 (164 words)

	Croat general surrenders to stand trial for war crimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tihomir Blaskic flew from Zagreb, Croatia, to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport and turned himself in to Dutch authorities, said Christian Chartier, spokesman for the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
		Blaskic was indicted in November for allegedly ordering massacres in central Bosnia's Lasva Valley in 1992-1993.
		"Blaskic was always a professional soldier who insisted on respecting all the international human rights conventions and was ordering his troops to behave according to all the principles of humanity," Hodak told The Associated Press.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/96/04/02/crimes.html (449 words)

	Croat general goes on trial for mass killings
		THE trial of Tihomir Blaskic, the most senior figure to be brought to court to face charges of war crimes in Bosnia, opened in The Hague yesterday.
		The prosecution alleges that, as the officer in charge of Croatian militia in central Bosnia, Blaskic was responsible for atrocities in the region by Croat forces in the 11-month ethnic war against Muslims between April 1993 and March 1994.
		Blaskic was decorated by President Tudjman of Croatia after the lightning offensive by Croat and Muslim forces across western and northern Bosnia in the late summer of 1995, in which Croatian army soldiers and artillery played the dominant role.
	www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/06/25/wcro25.html (811 words)

	War crimes panel sentences Bosnian Croat general to 45 years - 3/4/00
		Accused of ordering repeated attacks during the 1992-95 Bosnian war on Muslim towns and hamlets in which hundreds of civilians died, Tihomir Blaskic was found guilty on 20 counts of crimes against humanity, war crimes and violations of the Geneva Conventions, which set ground rules to protect civilians in wartime.
		Blaskic was found guilty by a three-judge panel of "personally ordering" systematic attacks on the civilian Muslim populations in the Lasva Valley as commander of HVO Bosnian Croat forces in central Bosnia-Herzegovina from mid-1992 until the beginning of 1994.
		Blaskic held the rank of colonel at the time of the events for which he stood trial.
	www.detnews.com /2000/nation/0003/04/03040052.htm (557 words)

	UN tribunal quashes most convictions of former Bosnian Croat general (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tihomir Blaskic, who had been convicted in March 2000 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), will leave jail on Monday after the ICTY's Appeals Chamber upheld his application for early release.
		Blaskic, who served as an army commander in central Bosnia during the early 1990s, was convicted of war crimes for ordering the massacre of about 100 Muslims in the Bosnian village of Ahmici in April 1993.
		Blaskic had control of some of the forces that participated in the massacre, or that his order to attack Ahmici was issued "with the clear intention that the massacre would be committed."
	www.un.org /apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=11500&Cr=icty&Cr1= (479 words)

	Summary of the ICTY Judgment on General Blaskic. ICTY, 03 March 2000
		General Blaskic is also charged with not having taken reasonable measures to prevent crimes or to punish the perpetrators thereof although knowing or having reasons to know that the crimes were about to be committed or had been committed.
		General Blaskic was, in his own words, under siege in a way and exposed to the attacks of the Muslim forces whose objective was to take control of the Lasva Valley by isolating each municipality.
		23. In early 1992, Tihomir Blaskic was in Vienna, in Austria, having resigned from the former Yugoslav army (the JNA).
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /ICTY/BlaskicSumJudg1.htm (4242 words)

	Summary of the ICTY Judgment on Gneral Blaskic. ICTY, 03 March 2000
		The truly essential question which arises is whether General Blaskic ordered crimes to be committed or otherwise failed in his duties as a commander and whether the crimes were committed as part of a widespread and systematic attack against the Muslim civilian population.
		General Blaskic thus took a decision and ordered that his troops be launched, that is, the regular HVO troops, special or independent Vitezovi and Tvrtko troops, the "Jokers" and military police troops (or even civilian police).
		To demonstrate that the accused did not have the communications resources to ensure the proper operation of the chain of command, the Defence put forth the argument, in particular, that the accused was isolated within his Vitez headquarters and that he did not have a sufficient number of qualified officers available to him.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /ICTY/BlaskicSumJudg2.htm (3890 words)

	Croatia's Tudjman behind Bosnia crimes, court hears (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		They were delivering closing arguments in the case against Bosnian Croat General Tihomir Blaskic, charged with 20 counts of crimes against humanity, violations of the laws or customs of war and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions.
		Blaskic, 38, commanded Bosnian Croat HVO forces in the strategic Lasva Valley in central Bosnia where hundreds of Moslems were killed and thousands driven out by Croats in an orgy of bloodshed that erupted in April 1993.
		He and Blaskic, promoted to general in the Croatian army in 1995, are among the most prominent suspects in custody.
	home.earthlink.net /~kspandle/main/criminals/articles/hg072699.htm (443 words)

	The Scotsman - International - Croat's sentence slashed
		General Tihomir Blaskic’s sentence was a record when he was found guilty in 2000 of ordering the ethnic cleansing of Muslim civilians from Bosnia’s Lasva Valley in 1993.
		In one of the most sensational appeals judgments in the war-crimes tribunal to date, judges said they were rejecting more than three-quarters of the sentence partly because "no reasonable trier of fact could have come to the conclusion beyond reasonable doubt that the appellant intended to effect forcible transfer of civilians".
		Blaskic never denied the crimes, but argued that these atrocities were the work of Croat paramilitary units outside his chain of command.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/07/30/cache/290948.html (450 words)

	joel donnet News 18 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		General Tihomir Blaskic, the first Bosnian Croat to be jailed by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, made an initial appearance on Wednesday before the court in The Hague.
		General Blaskic, who was promoted in the Croat army just days after his indictment by the ICT in November 1995, eventually turned himself to the tribunal last Monday night.
		Blaskic will be detained within a few days not anymore in the Scheveningen jail in The Hague, where the two other accused prisoners of the ICT are, but in a «residence» in the Netherlands.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /joel.donnet/News18.htm (530 words)

	U.N.-Just Tribunal Is Another U.N. Failure
		The tribunal’s appellate judges threw out 16 of the 19 convictions against Bosnian Croat General Tihomir Blaskic and reduced his sentence from 45 years — one of the harshest that the tribunal had handed out — to time already served and ordered him to be released a few days later.
		Either the tribunal unjustly convicted Blaskic of crimes he did not commit or Blaskic is guilty of all the charges against him and is now being released without sufficient punishment.
		If Blaskic is guilty, yet is allowed to go free, the justice that is owed to the victims and the survivors of the butchery will be thrown aside, and the United Nations, through its much ballyhooed tribunal, will have utterly broken its promise, once again demonstrating its total ineptitude in protecting peace and promoting justice.
	www.cfif.org /htdocs/freedomline/un_monitor/in_our_opinion/unjust_tribunal.htm (831 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)