9 minutes agoBosnian Serb Official Condemned for War Crimes Dies by Coronavirus
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(6 years ago)Momcilo Krajisnik, a former Bosnian Serb official who was convicted of war crimes by a UN tribunal, has died after being infected with coronarys. The 75-year-old was sent to the hospital in late August after his health deteriorated, Al Jazeera reports. Krajisnik was sentenced to 20 years in prison by the court of [...]
The 75-year-old was sent to the hospital in late August after his health deteriorated, Al Jazeera reports.
Krajisnik was sentenced to 20 years in prison by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague for the persecution and forced expulsion of non-Serbs during the 1992-95 war. He was released from a British prison in 2013 after serving two thirds of his sentence.
Krajisnik served as speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament during the conflict that erupted following the breakup of the Yugoslav federation in the 1990s.
About 100,000 people were killed and 2.2 million others moved to the Bosnian war, which erupted as municipal rivalries broke up Yugoslavia after the fall of communism, until a US-brokered peace agreement ended the conflict.
Many Serbs consider Krajisnik and other Bosnian Serb officials to be heroes, despite UN penalties for war crimes against them. After his release, Krajisnik was hosted as a hero by thousands of Serbs when he returned to Bosnia's Serb wartime raid, Pale.
Bosnia has more than 23,635 cases of COVID-19 and 705 deaths so far, according to Johns Hopkins University.
