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Bruno Stojić


Bruno Stojić (born 8 April 1955) is a Bosnian Croat politician convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). His trial, joined with five co-accused Bosnian-Croat politicians active in the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia wartime entity, ended with him being found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Bruno Stojić was born on 8 April 1955 in the village of Hamzići, People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1992 he was named head of the HVO department of defense by Mate Boban. In 1993 he was moved to the Office for the Production and Sales of Weapons and Military Equipment. On 5 April 2004 he voluntarily surrendered to the ICTY.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indictment states that his area of authority and responsibility included:

The ICTY concluded that Stojić had had the ability and authority to issue organisational, strategic and combat orders in the HVO prison system.

Taken from the ICTY press release:


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