Johannes Tilder

Johannes was next heard of in Knin prison where he was illegally detained for months without trial, repeatedly beaten, tortured, abused and interrogated about his part in Operation MEDAK and for information concerning Croatian forces and individual International Volunteers, yet the information extracted from him was mostly vague and inaccurate. The Serb Army intelligence report was later handed to a political pressure group known as the Serb Unity Congress that published much of the bogus information extracted from Johannes on the Internet. Ironically, this now serves as a lasting testimony to the indomitable bravery of a man who continued to fool his captors even under the most severe, medieval torture.

He was eventually murdered in his cell. The information obtained from the Yugoslav Army is that ﾓlocal Serbsﾔ apparently got into the prison where they beat him to death. His body was found dumped at a bend on a hillside road; four gunshot wounds were found in the side of his body and his face had been smashed to such a degree that other means had to be found to make a positive identification.