The Hague - Former Bosnian Serb prison guard Goran Jelisic killed Muslims for pleasure and terrified his fellow Serbs, the first witnesses in his genocide trial told a UN court yesterday.
According to prosecutors, Mr Jelisic, now 30, introduced himself to his victims as the "Serb Adolf", fashioning himself on Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Mr Jelisic is one of 25 indicted in the tribunal's custody. The tribunal, set up in 1993 to prosecute those guilty of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, has issued 19 public indictments against 55 individuals, plus a number of sealed indictments.