A convicted war criminal and retired Serbian police general, Sreten Lukic, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in The Hague for war crimes in Kosovo, has been released from a prison unit in Scheveningen, as Belgrade’s Vecernje Novosti, close to Serbian authorities, reported.
As it was published on the portal of that newspaper, Lukic, the former head of public security, arrived in Belgrade on Saturday night after he had served more than two-thirds of his sentence.
In June 1998, Lukic was appointed Chief of Staff of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs in Kosovo, and in 2003, the Hague Tribunal indicted him for war crimes.
The tribunal first sentenced Lukic to 22 years in prison and then commuted his sentence to 20 years in 2014.
He was “voluntarily” taken to The Hague in 2009, while he was in his pajamas and slippers.
Lukic is a cousin of the infamous Lukic brothers, Milan and Sredoje, who are responsible for numerous crimes in Visegrad and eastern Bosnia.
To recall, the crime known as Ziva lomaca (human bonfire) took place on June 27th, 1992, when members of the Osvetnici (Avengers) paramilitary formation, led by the cruelest criminals from Visegrad, Milan and Sredoje Lukic, forced about 70 Bosniak civilians into Meho Aljic’s house in Bikavac, Visegrad,mostly women, children, and the elderly, where they locked them up and then set the house on fire.
Trial Chamber III sentenced Milan Lukic to life in prison and Sredoje Lukic to 30 years in prison for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Visegrad during the 1992-1995 conflict, Radio Sarajevo writes.
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