War Crime - Prominent Indictees

Prominent Indictees

Heads of state & government

To date, the present and former heads of state and heads of government that have been charged with war crimes include:

  • German Großadmiral and President Karl Dönitz and Japanese Prime Ministers and Generals Hideki Tōjō and Kuniaki Koiso in the aftermath of World War II.
  • Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević was brought to trial for alleged war crimes, but died in custody in 2006 before the trial could be concluded after more than 4 years of proceedings.
  • Former Liberian President Charles G. Taylor was also brought to The Hague charged with war crimes; his trial stretched from 2007 to March 2011. He was convicted in April 2012.

  • Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadžić was arrested in Belgrade on July 18, 2008 and brought before Belgrade's War Crimes Court a few days after. He was extradited to the Netherlands, and is currently in The Hague, in the custody of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The trial began in 2010 and is expected to continue until 2014.
  • Omar al-Bashir, current head of state of Sudan, for actions in Darfur.
  • Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was indicted for allegedly ordering the killings of protesters and civilians during the 2011 Libyan civil war, however he was killed before he could stand trial in October 2011.
Other prominent indictees
  • Yoshijirō Umezu, a general in the Imperial Japanese Army
  • Seishirō Itagaki, War minister of the Empire of Japan
  • Hermann Göring, Commander in Chief of the Luftwaffe.
  • Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Adolf Eichmann—high-ranking members of the SS.
  • Wilhelm Keitel—Generalfeldmarschall, head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht.
  • Erich Raeder—Großadmiral, Commander in Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
  • Albert Speer—Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany 1942–45.
  • Paul Tibbets— Best known for being the pilot of the Enola Gay (named for his mother), the first (and only) aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in the history of warfare.
  • William Calley-former U.S. Army officer found guilty of murder for his role in the My Lai Massacre
  • Ratko Mladić, indicted for genocide amongst other violations of humanitarian law during the Bosnian War; he was captured in Serbia in May 2011 and has been extradited to face trial in The Hague,

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