Sreten Lukić
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Sreten Lukić (28 March 1955) is a Serbian politician and former Police General. He is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Kosovo War.
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Lukić was born in Višegrad in 1955. From May 1998 he was Chief of Staff for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a position he held during the Kosovo War. During this war, he also held the position of head of the Serbian police in Kosovo.
During the Kosovo War, Lukić was involved in planning and executing Operation Horseshoe, the Yugoslavian plan to remove the Albanian population of Kosovo, now considered an act of ethnic cleansing. As head of the occupying police force, Lukić was instrumental in rounding up and deporting the Kosovar Albanians. His police force was also involved in other acts of murder and forcible transfer against the population.
In May 1999, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia indicted Lukić, Nebojša Pavković, Vladimir Lazarević and Vlastimir Đorđević on the grounds that they had "planned, instigated, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted in a deliberate and widespread or systematic campaign of terror and violence directed at Kosovo Albanian civilians". Lukić turned himself in to the ICTY on 4 April 2005 and entered a plea of not guilty. He was eventually tried alongside Pavković, Lazarević, Nikola Šainović and Dragoljub Ojdanić. Lukić was convicted and sentenced to 22 in prison, later reduced to 20 years on appeal.