ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - The Zagreb County Court on Monday found Dinko Sakic, a former commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp during World War Two, guilty of a war crime against civilians and sentenced him to 20 years in prison.
After a six-months long trial, Sakic was found guilty of violating rules of International law during World War Two, ordering executions, torturing and inhumane treatments of civilians, intimidation, collective punishments, forced labour, and starving his prisoners. According to the verdict, Sakic committed a criminal act against humanity and international law, namely a war crime against civilians. Sakic is to blame for poor conditions in the concentration camp, in which a great number of prisoners died of hunger, hard labour, and tortures. He is also to blame for executions of ill and incapable of labour prisoners, taking prisoners in the so-called Zv
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - The Zagreb County Court on Monday found Dinko
Sakic, a former commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp
during World War Two, guilty of a war crime against civilians and
sentenced him to 20 years in prison.
After a six-months long trial, Sakic was found guilty of violating
rules of International law during World War Two, ordering
executions, torturing and inhumane treatments of civilians,
intimidation, collective punishments, forced labour, and starving
his prisoners.
According to the verdict, Sakic committed a criminal act against
humanity and international law, namely a war crime against
civilians.
Sakic is to blame for poor conditions in the concentration camp, in
which a great number of prisoners died of hunger, hard labour, and
tortures. He is also to blame for executions of ill and incapable of
labour prisoners, taking prisoners in the so-called Zvonara
building where they had been tortured to death. Sakic is also to
blame for crimes committed by other Ustashi officials, because he
failed to prevented them from committing the crimes.
According to the Panel of Judges, Sakic ordered executions of 20
prisoners from the Mile Boskovic group, who was, accused of
stealing a ear of corn, executed by Sakic personally, on September
21, 1944. Sakic is also guilty of ordering executions of Albert
Izrael and Kapar Nisim, the verdict reads.
According to the verdict, during the muster of prisoners, Sakic
ordered that two Jewish prisoners Avram Montilj and Leon Perera
step out. Sakic executed the two prisoners on the spot.
Present in the Zagreb County Court were president of the Jewish
B'nai Brith organisation, Tommy Baer, director of the Jerusalem
Simon Wiesenthal centre Ephraim Zuroff, president of the Croatian
Party of Rights Ante Djapic, and director of the Belgrade Museum of
genocide victims Milan Bulajic.
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