4 hours agoSerbian war criminal dies of coronary
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Momcilo Krajisnik, a former senior Bosnian Serb official who was convicted of war crimes by a UN tribunal, has died at the age of 75, after being infected with coronary. The hospital in the northern Bosnian town of Banja Luka said Krajisnik died early Tuesday “from the effects of coronary infection”. Krajisnik [...]
Momcilo Krajisnik, a former senior Bosnian Serb official who was convicted of war crimes by a UN tribunal, has died at the age of 75, after being infected with coronary.
The hospital in the northern Bosnian town of Banja Luka said Krajisnik died early Tuesday “from the effects of coronary infection”.
Krajisnik was admitted to hospital on August 29th while being diagnosed with pneumonia because of the virus
He was one of the most prominent Bosnian Serb leaders during the war in Bosnia 1992-95, along with Radovan Karadzic and Biljana Plavsic. Krajisnik is a co-founder of the Serb Democratic Party with Karadzic, who is now serving a life sentence for genocide and other war crimes.
Krajisnik served as chairman of the Republika Srpska Parliamentary Assembly from 1991 to 1996 and was briefly a member of the presidency; he also led the Bosnian Serb negotiating team to peace talks in Dayton, which ended the war in 1995.
He was sentenced to 20 years in prison by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, the Netherlands, for the persecution and forced expulsion of non-Serbs during the 1992-95 war.
