Sredoje Lukić (born April 5, 1961) is a Bosnian Serb former policeman and participant in the

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in the

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area. The

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(ICTY) in

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sentenced him to 35 years in prison.

Biography

He was born on April 5, 1961, in the village of Rujišta near

, to father Đorđe Lukić. He is related to police general

Sreten Lukić Sreten Lukić (, born 28 March 1955) is a retired Serbian colonel general. He served as the head of the Serbian Police in Kosovo during the 1998–99 Kosovo War ...

and

Milan Lukić Milan Lukić ( sr-cyr, Милан Лукић; born 6 September 1967) is the former leader of the Bosnian Serb paramilitary force the White Eagles that operated during the Bosnian War. He was found guilty by the International Criminal Tribunal for ...

. He worked as a policeman in

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and joined the

as a traffic officer in

. In April 1992, he joined a paramilitary group, which the ICTY believes, but emphasizes that there is no evidence, was under the command of the Serb Democratic Party. Members of this formation were arrested by the Territorial Defense between April 7 and April 9, 1992. During his time in

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captivity, Lukić was tortured and humiliated, and cigarette butts were extinguished on his body. He was released on April 14 or April 15, 1992. Sredoje Lukić voluntarily surrendered to the

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on September 14, 2005. The ICTY tried him together with his cousin

, who has also been convicted for war crimes. In the first-instance judgement from July 30, 2009, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison for acts of cruel treatment, murder, violations of the laws and customs of war, persecution, crimes against humanity, and other inhumane acts. On December 4, 2012, the Appeals Chamber reduced Sredoje Lukić’s sentence to 27 years in prison. He is serving his prison sentence in a prison in

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, where he was transferred on August 21, 2013.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lukic, Sredoje 1961 births People from Višegrad People convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Living people Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina convicted of crimes against humanity