President Mate Boban Name Jadranko Prlic Profession Economist, politician Role Politician | Allegiance Herzeg-Bosnia
Croatia Years of service 1992-1995 Siblings Drazan Prlic | |
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Born 10 June 1959
Dakovo, PR Croatia, Yugoslavia ( 1959-06-10 ) Political party Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina Alma mater Faculty of Economics in Sarajevo Party Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina Books Return to Europe: Foreign Policy in Post-conflict Period Education University of Sarajevo, School of Economics and Business Sarajevo Battles and wars Bosnian War, Croat–Bosniak War | ||
Service/branch Croatian Defence Council | ||
Presuda estorci iz herceg bosne hrvatska izvr ila agresiju na bih 29 05 2013
Jadranko Prlić ([jâdraːŋko př̩ːlit͡ɕ]; born 10 June 1959) is a Croat politician who held the position of Prime Minister of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, an unrecognized entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 1992 to 1996. From 1994 to 1996 he was the Defence Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and from 1996 to 2001 the Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In May 2013, in a first instance verdict, he was sentenced to 25 years by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes against Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslim) during the Croat–Bosniak War.
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Early life
Around 1975, he joined the League of Communists. In 1987, he received his doctorate from the Faculty of Economics in Sarajevo. He passed through all levels of professorship before becoming a full professor. In 1988, he became a mayor of Mostar and in 1989 he became the Vice-President of the state Executive Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina. During and immediately after the 1990 elections he held the position of Acting President of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Government. In early March 1992, he travelled to the United States to study the American approach to market economics. Upon his return to Mostar the city was under siege and Prlić joined the Croatian Defence Council and took active participation in war.
Indictment
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indictment states that as a leading politician of the Croatian Defence Council or HVO in the early 1990s Prlić had almost total power and control of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia government. Therefore, as the leader of the HVO government he had the power to remove, military civilian commanders who had taken part of ordered crimes against humanity. He had the power to close HVO concentrations camps.
He was charged with:
On 29 May 2013, in a first instance verdict, the ICTY sentenced Prlić to 25 years in prison. The tribunal also convicted five other war time leaders of the joint trial: defence minister of Herzeg-Bosnia Bruno Stojić (20 years), military officers Slobodan Praljak (20 years) and Milivoj Petković (20 years), military police commander Valentin Ćorić (20 years), and head of prisoner exchanges and detention facilities Berislav Pušić (16 years). The Chamber ruled, by majority, with the presiding judge Jean-Claude Antonetti dissenting, that they took part in a joint criminal enterprise (JCE) against the non-Croat population of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It concluded that "in the majority of cases, the crimes committed were not the random acts of a few unruly soldiers. On the contrary, these crimes were the result of a plan drawn up by members of the JCE whose goal was to permanently remove the Muslim population from Herceg-Bosna." The Chamber also ruled, by majority, that the JCE included the President of Croatia Franjo Tuđman, defence minister Gojko Šušak, and general Janko Bobetko. However, on 19 July 2016 the Appeals Chamber in the case announced that the "Trial Chamber made no explicit findings concerning [Tudjman's, Šušak's and Bobetko's] participation in the JCE and did not find [them] guilty of any crimes."
The Appeal judgement in the case is expected by the end of 2017.