Mile Novaković (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet (, ), also known as the Serbian script, (, ), is a standardized variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language. It originated in medieval Serbia and was significantly reformed in the 19th cen ...

: Миле Новаковић; 29 April 1950 – 14 September 2015) was a Croatian Serb major general active in the

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

and in the Armed Forces of FR Yugoslavia, during and after the

Croatian War of Independence The Croatian War of Independence) and (rarely) "War in Krajina" ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Рат у Крајини, Rat u Krajini) are used. was an armed conflict fought in Croatia from 1991 to 1995 between Croats, Croat forces loyal to the Governmen ...

. 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 and politician who served as the Chief of the General Staff (Serbia and Montenegro), Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Serbi ...

at the

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes in the Yugoslav Wars, war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to tr ...

. 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 Ischemia, blood flow decreases or stops in one of the coronary arteries of the heart, causing infarction (tissue death) to the heart muscle. The most common symptom ...

on 14 September 2015 and died in the ambulance that was driving him from Surduk, where he lived, to the Military Medical Academy in

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.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