June 7, 1968 - Goran Jelisić
His own words provided the clearest record of his intent: he referred to himself as the "Serb Adolf Hitler" and stated openly that killing Muslims was his goal. Operating as a camp guard at Luka during the Bosnian War, he carried out crimes against humanity on a scale that resulted in convictions across thirty-one counts before the ICTY. The acquittal on genocide — not an exoneration, but a matter of legal threshold — has itself become a reference point in scholarly debates about how international courts define and prove genocidal intent.
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Goran Jelisić (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Јелисић; born 7 June 1968) is a Bosnian Serb policeman and camp guard who was found guilty of having committed crimes against humanity and violating the customs of war by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at the Luka camp in Brčko during the Bosnian War.
Jelisić called himself the "Serb Adolf Hitler" and admitted that his "motivation and goal was to kill Muslims". In 1999, Jelisić pled guilty to sixteen counts of violating the customs of war and fifteen counts of crimes against humanity and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. He was acquitted of the charge of genocide as the court found that it had not been established beyond a reasonable doubt.
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