Dr Milan Bulajic, Manager of the Genocide Victims Museum, Belgrade

Dinko Shakic, the commander of the Ustasha death camp Jasenovac, born 8 September 1921 in Studenac near Imotski. In Bosanska Gradiska, at the age of 13, he was expelled from school permanently. Aide-de-camp and son-in law of the worst Ustasha genocide criminal Vjekoslav - Max Luburic. Arrived at the death camp of Jasenovac on the 18 February 1942, administration bureau and UOZ. A month later at the Camp V became assistant to the Commander Mijo Oreshkovic (Stara Gradishka). In November got back to Jasenovac (Camp III), general affairs and deputy commander. By the middle of 1944, he becomes the Commander of the death camp. In April 1945, he revisits the site, instructed to destroy all the traces.

The Croatian State Commission for war crimes declares Dinko Shakic a war criminal (Zh. No 9966,15565,Th. 3378/1).

The State Commission concluded that this war criminal is on the run. It was later established that, through the Rat Channel of Monsignor Krunoslav Draganovic abroad the shipTakuman from Genoa, Shakic escaped to Argentina. He lived in the small town of Santa Terezita at the Mar del Plata coast under the name of Ljubomir Bilanovic, but later took back his own name. In the registry of Citizens of Argentina, he is registered under the number 4.009,804. He has three children: his oldest son, Antonio is now 52, then Tomas Luis (49) and the daughter Mariana is 32 years old.

The are numerous testimonies proving Dinko Shakic's crimes. The eye-witnesses: Mihailo Maric from Belgrade, Josip Erlih from Belgrade, Milosh Despot from Bijeljina, Edo Sayer from Nish, Chedomil Huber from Belgrade, Ljiljana Ivanishevic tell about the crimes.

They testify that Shakic himself had shot down two Jewish young men (16, 17 years old) Avram Montiljo and Leon Perer.

Shakic ordered 25 camp inmates to be taken to "Zvonara" and executed. (Prof. Samlajic, Jakov Danon from Sarajevo, lawyer Dr Slavko Goldsmit, Altarac Albert from Sarajevo, Fridmen and an anonymous camp inmate nicknamed CELO, an engineer of unknown name)

On the 21st of September, 1944 Shakic ordered the hanging of 20 inmates (Dr Milo Boshkovic, medical doctor, Laci Mateo, veterinarian, Pejnovic Nikola from Sisak, Maric Tomo from Zagreb, Musafija Henrih, Boshkovic Dmitar, engineer from Zagreb, Rebac Ramzija, Dr Branko Konic, judge, Dr Milanovic, dentist, Zhivkovic Stevan, a student from Mitrovica, Sekulic Boro from Vukovar, Vojinovic Branko from Bosnia, Hadzhija and Rajic from Sarajevo. Also, the liquidation of the Ustasha collaborators: Dr Jurcev Marin, a captain and his wife Bucusic, a first lieutenant and the ones that were allowed to move around freely: Jakovic Zharko and Rukavina Franjo. Shakic himself shot down Dr Milo Boshkovic in front of the camp inmates; there are living witnesses.

Dr Dragan Roler testifies that he himself had seen Shakic killing the Croatian poet and writer Mihovil Pavlek Miskin. Bozho Shvarc testifies about a horrible scene: Dinko Shakic in front of all the present cut up in quarters a child from Kozara. There is also the testimony of Mikhail Maric on the character of Dinko Shakic: Shakic brought a blank paper to him and made him sign it. On the day after, Maric finds out that he had signed his assent to stay in the Jasenovac camp for the next two years.

The Croatian State Commission for the establishing of crimes of the aggressors and their collaborators concluded on the 18 of March 1947: "Based on the above mentioned the Ustasha First Lieutenant Dinko Shakic, who has escaped abroad, is responsible for all the above mentioned crimes as the commander and the executor and this State Commission confirms that he is a serious war criminal and that legal proceeding should be taken before the People's Court of this country.

For Yugoslavia, it is unacceptable that the war criminal Dinko Shakic was extradited to the second Independent State of Croatia. Among other things, there is the fact that President Tudjman states that NDH was the manifest of the historical aspiration of the Croat people, that he officially demands the continuity of the Croatian state in relations with the SR Yugoslavia and that President Tudjman, while in Buenos Aires, visited Shakic and expressed his appreciation.

If it was proved that the trial of the Ustasha Minister of Death (Interior) Dr Andrija Artukovic in 1986 was fixed (see four volumes of Dr Milan Bulajic's "Ustasha genocide crimes and Andrija Artukovic's trial in 1986), then there is no doubt that in the second Croatian State the trial of the Commander of the Ustasha death camp Jasenovac which was under Artukovic's control, will also be fixed. One of the high-ranking officials of the Croatian Rights Party, Miroslav Rozhic, said, "Croatia should demand the extradition of Dinko Shakic, but only to apply the law of amnesty upon him".

Shakic's wife, Ustasha Esperanza Nada Luburic claims that Dinko is "innocent as a new born baby", while the Croatian Ambassador in Buenos Aires says that the Croatian Embassy is "acquainted with the information that Shakic's family supports the decision that Shakic should be on trial in Croatia".

Shakic made a public statement, both in Croatia and in Buenos Aires, that without his help Tudjman would not have succeeded in bringing down the former Yugoslavia and establishing the new Croatian State. He openly declared and the Croatian media published this: "I was only doing my duty following the canons of the Catholic Church." "I am not ashamed of anything I'd done" "I am proud for being an Ustasha" "I would do it all over again" "I will come to Croatia only if it would not wrongly affect President Tudjman".

The news have been already launched from a trustworthy source in the Croatian Government: the documents on Shakic's wrongdoing, collected and completed immediately upon the end of the Second World War, are not at the Ministry of Justice, neither in the Court archives nor in the Croatian State Archive, and not in the State Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Croatia, says the Croatian Novi List.

The documents exist in the Yugoslav State Archive, Military-Historical Institute, and Genocide Victims Museum. The responsible from Croatia should be compelled to take part in the trial, the historian Tudjman should be subpoenaed to present the German documents that he'd referred to at the The Hague Conference on Yugoslavia on the 6th November, 1991, that the total number of victims in Jasenovac is 20/000 and the Genocide Victims Museum, till the last year, established by name and surname 77.743 victims (children 19.544).


1998-07-27 Criminal Dinko Shakic - facts and issues on his arrest and the legal proceedings
1998-07-27 Request for prosecution of Esperanza Nada Luburic
1998-07-27 The testimony of Jovan Zhivkovic
1998-07-27 Jasenovac,the largest children burial ground
1998-07-27 The Croatian court
1998-07-27 Zurof after visiting Croatia: Fear of new Ustasha
1998-07-27 Croatian nazi criminal Shakic in present Croatia
1998-07-27 In respect to "the new Croatian documents" about Jasenovac
1998-07-01 Dinko Sakic personally attended hangings of prisoners, an ex-prisoner testifies
1998-06-21 Sakic to be put on trial only in September