Savo Štrbac
# Savo Štrbac

Savo Štrbac (Serbian Cyrillic: Саво Штрбац; born 1949) is a Croatian Serb lawyer and author. He is best-known for being the director of the Serbian NGO "Veritas" that documents with the history of the Republic of Serbian Krajina and locates missing war victims.

## Early life and education

Štrbac was born in Raštević, near Benkovac, People’s Republic of Croatia. He earned a degree in law from the University of Zagreb.

## Career

From 1977 to 1990, he worked as a judge of the Municipal Court in Benkovac and of the District Court in Zadar. During the Breakup of Yugoslavia, he was involved in the work of the RSK Commission for Prisoner Exchanges, at first as a Commission member and from 1993 as its chairman. The same year, he also became Secretary of the RSK.

Since 1994, he worked with the now-former chief prosecutor at the ICTY, Carla del Ponte, in preparing indictments against Croatian generals in the Trial of Gotovina et al. After the convictions of Ante Gotovina and Mlden Markač were reversed, he stated that "Croats gave huge money for generals' freedom".

## Personal life

He has two children and lives in Belgrade.

## Works

* Ravni kotari - Maslenica 1993, Informaciono-dokumentacioni centar „Veritas“
* Krvavi spetembar u Lici - 1993, Informaciono-dokumentacioni centar „Veritas“, 1996
* Miljevački plato - juni 1992., Informaciono-dokumentacioni centar „Veritas“, 1996
* Srpska zapadna Slavonija - maj 1995, Informaciono-dokumentacioni centar „Veritas“, Svetigora, 1997
* Srpska Krajina - avgust 1995, Informaciono-dokumentacioni centar „Veritas“, Svetigora, 1997
* Nestala lica na području Hrvatske, Informaciono-dokumentacioni centar „Veritas“, Art-print, Banjaluka
* Sudbine ljudi sa potrežnih lista, Informaciono-dokumentacioni centar „Veritas“, Belgrade, 1999
* Zvona Svetog Ćirita, Informaciono-dokumentacioni centar „Veritas“, Banjaluka, 2000
* Zvona sudbine, Informaciono-dokumentacioni centar „Veritas“, Banjaluka, 2005
* Štrbac, Savo (2005–2015). Hronika prognanih Krajišnika I-V. Belgrade: Grafid, DIC Veritas.
* Štrbac, Savo (2011). Rat i riječ. Knin-Banja Luka-Beograd: Grafid, Dokumentaciono-informacioni centar Veritas. ISBN 9789993853749.
* Štrbac, Savo (2015). Gone with the Storm: A Chronicle of Ethnic Cleansing of Serbs from Croatia. Knin-Banja Luka-Belgrade: Grafid, DIC Veritas. ISBN 9789995589806.
* Štrbac, Savo (2015). Gone with the Storm: A Chronicle of Ethnic Cleansing of Serbs from Croatia. Knin-Banja Luka-Beograd: Grafid, DIC Veritas. ISBN 9789995589806.
