Zlatko Aleksovski (born 8 January 1960) is a former Bosnian Croat prison commander during the Bosnian War who was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and sentenced to seven years imprisonment for unlawful treatment of prisoners in Lašva Valley area in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
[1] Aleksovski grew up and was educated in the town of Zenica in SR Bosnia and Herzegovina of the SFR Yugoslavia.
[1] During this period he received several hundred Bosniak civilians from the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) at the detention centre in Kaonik.
[4] During his command at Kaonik prison, the ICTY found that "Many detainees under his control were subjected to inhumane treatment, including excessive and cruel interrogation, physical and psychological harm, and forced labour, the detainees were also used as human shields and murdered or otherwise killed.
[5] On 8 June 1996 shortly after the end of the Bosnian War, Aleksovski was arrested by Croatian authorities in Split, before being transferred to the ICTY in The Hague, Netherlands on 28 April 1997.