Perisic is charged with crimes against humanity and with violations of laws or customs of wars as he had provided significant personnel, material and logistical assistance to Serb forces responsible for the atrocities in Srebrenica, the siege of Sarajevo and shelling of Zagreb.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia alleges that "between August 1993 and November 1995, Perisic aided and abetted the planning, preparation, or execution of a military campaign of artillery and mortar shelling and sniping onto civilian areas of Sarajevo and upon its civilian population, killing and wounding thousands of civilians."
He also "failed to initiate an inquiry into what role his subordinates may have played in the shelling of civilian areas in the city of Zagreb and its civilian population which resulted in the death and wounding of civilians" in May 1995.
"He aided and abetted crimes which included unlawful killings, inhumane acts and forcible transfers, with the knowledge that the assistance he provided would be used in the commission of these crimes; these crimes were perpetrated with the intent to discriminate against the Bosnian Muslim population of Srebrenica on political, racial or religious grounds and Perisic was aware of the discriminatory intent of the perpetrators; he failed to initiate an inquiry into what role his subordinates may have played in the commission of these crimes," the Hague-based tribunal's prosecution said.
Perisic's trial began on 2 October 2008. He arrived in the Scheveningen detention centre on 7 March 2005 and was later provisionally released until the commencement of the trial phase in his case.