After a short and serious illness, retired lieutenant general Pavle Strugar (85) died in Belgrade.
He was born on July 13, 1933 in Peja, Kosovo. He graduated from the Military Academy of the Army, and after that he performed various duties in the Yugoslav People's Army in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia and the Socialist Republic of Serbia.
He was later promoted to the rank of major general and appointed as the commander of the Army Military Academy.
In 1989, he became the commander of the Territorial Defense forces in SR Montenegro. In the same year, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general.
In October 2001, Strugar voluntarily surrendered to the Hague Tribunal. In January 2005, he was sentenced in The Hague to eight years in prison because, as the commander of the Second JNA Operational Group, he did not prevent the shelling of Dubrovnik on December 6, 1991, which both the defense and the prosecution complained about.
In July 2008, the appeals panel additionally found Strugar guilty of attacks on civilian objects and unjustified military destruction, but, considering his poor health, reduced the sentence by six months and sentenced him to 7,5 years in prison.
At the beginning of 2009, he was released from prison and came to Montenegro, after serving two thirds of his sentence.
Pavle Strugar will be buried in Belgrade, on December 15 at 12.45:XNUMX p.m., in the family tomb at the Bežani Cemetery.
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