Mile Novaković (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, t ...

: Миле Новаковић; 29 April 1950 – 14 September 2015) was a

Croatian Serb The Serbs of Croatia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", Срби у Хрватској, Srbi u Hrvatskoj) or Croatian Serbs ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", хрватски Срби, hrvatski Srbi) constitute the largest national minority in Croa ...

major general active in the

Serbian Army of Krajina The Serbian Army of Krajina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Srpska vojska Krajine, SVK, Српска војска Крајине, СВК) was the armed forces of the Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK). Also known as the Army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina or ...

and in the Armed Forces of FR Yugoslavia, during and after the Croatian War of Independence. He was tried in absentia by a Croatian court in 1995 for war crimes, being sentenced to 20 years in jail. In 2003, another Yugoslav Army official was apprehended by Macedonian officials citing an Interpol warrant, as he tried to cross into the country. This man was released after the mistaken identity was discovered. The real Novaković remained at large in Serbia. In 2010, Novaković testified at the trial of

Momčilo Perišić Momčilo Perišić ( sr-Cyrl, Момчило Перишић; born 22 May 1944) is a Serbian former general who served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Yugoslavia between 1993 and 1998. On 6 September 2011, in a first-i ...

at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Perišić had previously promoted Novaković to the rank of Major-General in the Armed Forces of FR Yugoslavia in 1993. Perišić was acquitted upon appeal of all charges on 28 February 2013.

Death

Novaković suffered a

heart attack A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to the coronary artery of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle. The most common symptom is chest pain or discomfort which ma ...

on 14 September 2015 and died in the ambulance that was driving him from Surduk (where he lived) to the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade.Death of Mile Novaković
novosti.rs; accessed 3 October 2015.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Novakovic, Mile 1950 births 2015 deaths People from Gvozd Serbs of Croatia Military personnel of the Croatian War of Independence Military of Serbian Krajina Officers of the Yugoslav People's Army Serbian generals