Birth Name: | Slavko Dokmanović |
Slavko Dokmanović | |
Office: | Mayor of Vukovar |
Term Start: | May 1990 |
Term End: | May 1991 |
Successor: | Marin Vidić |
Office2: | Minister of Agriculture of SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia |
Term Start2: | 25 September 1991 |
Term End2: | 19 December 1991 |
Predecessor2: | Veljko Stoisavljević |
Successor2: | Veljko Stoisavljević |
Birth Date: | 14 December 1949 |
Birth Place: | Trpinja, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia |
Death Place: | The Hague, Netherlands |
Death Cause: | Suicide by hanging |
Party: | League of Communists of Croatia |
Nationality: | Serb |
Office1: | President of the Coordinating Committee of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia |
Predecessor1: | Position established |
Successor1: | Goran Hadžić[1] [2] |
Term Start1: | 7 August 1995 |
Term End1: | 22 April 1996 |
Native Name: | Славко Докмановић |
Slavko Dokmanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Славко Докмановић; 14 December 1949 – 29 June 1998) was a Croatian Serb who was charged with grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, violation of the customs of war and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for his actions in the Vukovar massacre while he served as the city's mayor.[3]
Dokmanović faced two charges of each count. He was arrested in 1997 by the Polish special forces GROM and pleaded not guilty to all charges. However, he died on 29 June 1998, having hanged himself in his cell,[4] and his trial's proceedings soon stopped without a verdict. He was indicted along with Mile Mrkšić, Veselin Šljivančanin and Miroslav Radić, who were all on trial for their alleged role in the massacre.