Goran Jelisić

Goran Jelisić shooting a victim in Brčko. (Photograph provided courtesy of the ICTY)

Goran Jelisić (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Јелисић) (born June 7, 1968 in Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia), nicknamed "Serb Adolf", is a Bosnian Serb war criminal who was found guilty of having committed crimes against humanity and for 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.

Trial

Jelisić was apprehended by a Team of US Navy SEALs (as a NATO SFOR Team) in January 1998, and faced trial for one count of genocide, sixteen counts of violating the customs of war and fifteen counts of crimes against humanity in relation to his involvement in the inhumane treatment and systematic killing of detainees at the Luka camp, where he was alleged to have, every day, "entered Luka’s main hangar, where most detainees were kept, selected detainees for interrogation, beat them and then often shot and killed them".

In 1999, he pleaded guilty to the charges of crimes against humanity and violating the customs of war. He was acquitted on the charge of genocide as the court did not believe the prosecution had proved this beyond reasonable doubt. He was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment. The same sentence was confirmed by the appeals chamber.

On 29 May 2003, Jelisić was transferred to Italy to serve the remainder of his sentence with credit for time served since his arrest on 22 January 1998.