Sredoje Lukić

Who is Sredoje Lukić?

Sredoje Lukić is a Bosnian Serb war criminal, the cousin and associate of Milan Lukić.

Before and during the Bosnian war, Sredoje Lukić worked as a policeman in Visegrad. After the war started, he joined Milan Lukić's group of paramilitaries known as the White Eagles. In July 2009 after being tried with his cousin he was found guilty by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia of crimes against humanity and violations of war customs committed in the Višegrad municipality of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian war.

He was found to have substantially contributed to the deaths of 59 people trapped in the Pionirska Street fire. He had been present at Jusuf Memić's house, and carrying arms, while the robbery and the strip searches were taking place inside and when the women were removed. He was also present during the transfer of victims to Adem Omeragić's house. The ICTY Trial Chamber concluded that there was no reliable evidence he had set the house on fire or shot at the windows as people tried to escape. Nevertheless, although he did not set Adem Omeragić's house on fire himself, he knew what would happen to the group of victims that he helped to herd there. Judge Patrick Robinson dissenting, the Trial Chamber found that by his presence and by being armed, Sredoje Lukić substantially contributed to the deaths of the 59 people trapped in the house and that he had aided and abetted the cruel treatment and inhumane acts committed against all the members of the group.