Dragan Obrenović

Who is Dragan Obrenović?

Dragan Obrenović was a Serb senior officer and commander in the Yugoslav People's Army and the Bosnian Serb Army.

In 2001, Obrenović was indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague for his involvement in implementation of the VRS leadership's plan to kill the mostly Bosniak civilians and prisoners of war in the Srebrenica genocide during the Bosnian War in July 1995. In 2003, Obrenović pled guilty to one of the counts of persecution and in exchange agreeing to allocute to his crime and witness for the prosecution he was sentenced to 17 years in prison. He served out his sentence in Norway and would be eligible for release in April 2018. He was released by orders from the ICTY in 2012 for good behaviour. The decision to release him was made in September 2011 but was kept a secret until May 2012. He was deported from Norway in 2012, after his release from prison.