Zlatko Aleksovski
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Zlatko Aleksovski was born on 8 January 1960 in Pakrac, Croatia. In 1993 Zlatko Aleksovski was commander of the prison facility at Kaonik, near Busovaca, Bosnia Herzegovina.
Many of the detained under his control were subjected to inhumane treatment, including excessive and cruel interrogation, physical and psychological violence, exposure to forced labor under dangerous conditions and being used as human shields. Some were murdered or otherwise killed.
Zlatko Aleksovski, 40, was found guilty in May 1999 for his role as commander of the Kaonik centre in central Bosnia from January to May 1993. A UN tribunal sentenced him to two and a half years but he was released because he had already been in detention for three years.
Aleksovski was under the command of Dario Kordic and his right-hand man Anto Sliskovic.
Aleksovski's reply, after showed a piece of paper from Gudelj, asking for more men for labour.
"You can't get the men. On this piece of paper, there's no signature of either Sliskovic or Kordic."
After Gudelj returned with a signed paper, his answer was so rough and so incomprehensible, he said:
"These are not men I'm leading; these are cattle."
Zlatko Aleksovski unimpressed by these requests according to the one of the prisoners in a court statement against Kordic
He was taken into custody again after he returned to the UN tribunal in The Hague to appeal the decision and clear his name. But the appeal was rejected and a counter-appeal from prosecutors led to an increased sentence of four-and-a-half years. Presiding Judge Richard May said the original sentence did not reflect Aleksovski's position of authority or the gravity of his crimes.
At the original trial Aleksovski insisted he had done all he could to improve conditions in the prison.
