Lukic verdict

ICTY Appeal Chamber has pronounced a final second instance verdict today for war crimes committed in Visegrad, B&H, in the case of Milan and Sredoje Lukic. The Appeal Chamber has confirmed the first instance verdict in the case of Milan Lukic who was sentenced to life imprisonment and sentence for Sredoje Lukic was decreased from the original 30 years to 27 years in prison while the time they have already spent in prison will count in the full sentence.

 

 Lukic listens to his verdict source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NnCLFKQjeGM

 Some of the comments from social network regarding the verdict for the Lukic brothers you can read here: 

In the appeals hearings lawyers for the convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Milan Lukic claimed that the case against him was based on mistaken identity and rumour contending that the witnesses who claimed to have seen the accused at crime scenes misidentified him.

In addition, Lukic claimed that Bakira Hasecic - a prominent advocate on behalf of wartime rape victims - mistreated Serbs in Visegrad and then “fled to Sarajevo with her gang”. Hasecic has publicly alleged that Lukic raped her during the war, but those charges were not included in the indictment against him.

You can read more of the details on the defence and court proceedings in the trials against the Lukic brothers in the following article written by Rachel Irwin, IWPR report in the Hague: http://iwpr.net/report-news/lukic-alleges-mistaken-identity

Milan Lukic is one of only four people to have receivedlife sentence from the Criminal Tribunal, which has indicted 161 people involved in the Balkan wars. Do the families of their victims think that the sentences for both Milan and Sredoje Lukic are the right punishment for their crimes?

You can read more in the following article written by Raluca Besliu: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/338343#tab=comments&sc=

On the following blog you can read about war crimes committed in Visegrad between 1992 -1995 told by the victims who managed to survive: http://genocideinvisegrad.wordpress.com/

On the official blog of Daniel Toljaga he wrote about Milan Lukic's book which he wrote last year and more about Lukic's war crimes: http://danieltoljaga.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/serbian-orthodox-church-endorses-war-criminals/