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Branimir Savović was president of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) for the municipality of Višegrad〔http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/documents/trial/2003-09-02.html〕 in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time of the outbreak of the Bosnian War 1992-1995. He was appointed to the Presidency of the Municipality by the Bosnian Serb authorities〔http://www.liberation.fr/monde/0109188176-les-demons-des-serbes-de-visegrad-videe-de-tous-ses-musulmans-la-ville-redoute-leur-retour-apres-les-elections "Les démons des Serbes de Visegrad", Jean Hatzfeld, www.liberation.fr, 26/08/1996. Accessed 13 December 2010.〕 and became President of the "Crisis Staff Committee" established to assume responsibility for the civilian administration of the town. It was during his presidency of the Crisis Staff that the Višegrad massacres took place and the campaign of terror conducted by Milan Lukić and his White Eagles gang proceeded unchecked〔http://www.icty.org/x/cases/milan_lukic_sredoje_lukic/tjug/en/090720_j.pdf ICTY: Milan Lukić and Sredoje Lukić judgement. Accessed 13 December 2010.〕 until Višegrad was purged of its entire Bosniak population.〔http://iwpr.net/report-news/jna-linked-ethnic-cleansing "JNA linked to Ethnic Cleansing", by Emir Suljagic, IWPR, ICTY TRI Issue 323, 30 April 2005. Accessed 13 December 2010.〕 Višegrad has been described as second only to Srebrenica as a byword for ethnic cleansing and for humanity at its cruellest.〔http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/16/fight-for-justice-bosnia? "The fight for justice in Bosnia goes on", Rob Miller, guardian.co.uk, Monday 16 August 2010. Accessed 13 December 2010〕 After the end of the war when Višegrad was allocated to the Republika Srpska entity under the Dayton Agreement of 1995, Savović remained president of the Višegrad branch of the SDS 〔http://www.hri.org/news/agencies/srna/1996/96-08-24_1.srna.html〕 and became mayor of the town.〔 ==Association with the 1992 Bosnian Serb Secession== Evidence given by one of the protected witnesses testifying at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague pointed to Branimir Savović's participation in the concertation of arrangements for the Bosnian Serb seizure of the town of Višegrad. Višegrad, whose population according to the 1991 population survery was 62% Bosnian Muslim, was strategically located at a historic crossing point of the River Drina on the main road from Belgrade and Užice in Serbia to the Bosnian capital Sarajevo. For much of its length the River Drina formed the border between Bosnia and Serbia. The "Six Strategic Objectives of the Serbian People in Bosnia" drawn up by the Bosnian Serb Presidency and adopted by the breakaway Serb National Assembly on 12 May 1992, envisaged the integration of the Drina Valley with Serbia and necessitated a change in the area's ethnic composition.〔〔http://www.icty.org/x/cases/karadzic/trans/en/100601IT.htm ICTY Karadzic case, testimony of Dr Robert Donia, transcript 1 June 2010, p. 3097. Accessed 13 December 2010.〕 The witness, under the pseudonym B-1505, told how forces of the Yugoslav National Army (JNA) Užice Corps arrived in Višegrad in April 1992, under the command of Colonel Dragoljub Ojdanić, one of Milosevic's top commanders, and on 13 April 1992 took control of the town before helping to prepare the expulsion of its Muslim population.〔 The witness met Colonel Ojdanić twice. The first time the witness overheard five JNA officers at army headquarters planning the ethnic cleansing of the town's Muslim population; he asked Ojdanić to protect a very large group of refugees whom the JNA then proceeded to concentrate in an area of the town, under threat of being killed by units like Milan Lukić's marauding White Eagles if they ventured outside that area.〔 The second time, as B-1505 was waiting to see Col. Ojdanić at the Višegrad Hotel, he saw the Bosnian Serb Vice-President Biljana Plavšić arrive with Branimir Savović (wearing a military camouflage uniform) for talks with the JNA officers.〔〔http://www.ictytranscripts.org/TrialTranscripts/HTML/transe32/01-09-10-ED.html Transcript, 10 September 2001, ICTY Case number IT-98-32-T, the Prosecutor versus Mitar Vasiljevic.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Branimir Savović」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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