Zdravko Tolimir
| Zdravko Tolimir Здравко Толимир |
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| Born |
27 November 1948 Glamoč, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia |
| Died | 9 February 2016 (aged 67) The Hague, Netherlands |
| Allegiance |
 Republika Srpska
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| Service/branch |
 Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) |
| Battles/wars | Bosnian War |
Zdravko Tolimir (Serbian Cyrillic: Здравко Толимир; 27 November 1948 – 9 February 2016) was a Bosnian Serb military commander and war criminal, convicted of genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, extermination, murder, persecution on ethnic grounds and forced transfer. Tolimir was a commander of the Army of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War. He was Assistant Commander of Intelligence and Security for the Bosnian Serb army and reported directly to the commander, General Ratko Mladić.
He died serving a life sentence for war crimes in Scheveningen prison in 2016.
Tolimir was born in Glamoč, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was a part of Yugoslavia at the time.
According to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indictment, Tolimir was aware of the program aimed at expelling Bosniaks from Srebrenica and Zepa, and he willingly participated in the project. On 9 July 1995, when President Radovan Karadžić passed down an order to seize Srebrenica, the order was passed directly through Tolimir. In Zepa, Tolimir was alleged to have told the Bosniaks that they or the Serbs of Bosnia would launch a military operation.
On 21 July 1995, Tolimir sent a report to General Radomir Miletic, acting Chief of General Staff of the Bosnian Serb Army (VRS), requesting help to crush some Bosnian military strongholds and expressing his view that "the best way to do it would be to use chemical weapons". In the same report, Tolimir went even further, proposing chemical strikes against refugee columns of women, children and elderly leaving Zepa, because that would "force the Muslim fighters to surrender quickly", in his opinion.
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