Momčilo Krajišnik

Momčilo Krajišnik (1996)

Momčilo Krajišnik ( Cyrillic Момчило Крајишник; born January 20, 1945 in Sarajevo ; † September 15, 2020 in Banja Luka ) was a Yugoslav or Bosnian-Serb politician and convicted war criminal.

Krajišnik was during the Bosnian War (1992-1995) parliamentary president of the separate state Republika Srpska established in Bosnia and Herzegovina and a close assistant and confidante of its president Radovan Karadžić . After the war, he represented the Serbs in the three-member state presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1996 to 1998 .

On September 27, 2006, Krajišnik was sentenced to 27 years in prison by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague for crimes against humanity during the war in Yugoslavia , but was acquitted of genocide at the same time . In the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia in particular , the verdict was received with much disappointment. In the second instance, the sentence was reduced to 20 years. After serving two-thirds of his sentence, he was released from a London prison in 2013.

Momčilo Krajišnik was a member of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS). Its then chairman, Mladen Bosić , invited Krajišnik in August 2013 to join the party again after his imminent release from prison.

Krajišnik died at the age of 75 from a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ War criminal Krajisnik dies Corona death. In: n-tv.de . September 15, 2020, accessed September 16, 2020 .
↑ Former Bosnian Serb leader died of Corona. In: deutschlandfunk.de . September 15, 2020, accessed September 16, 2020 .
↑ SDS: Otvorena vrata za Krajišnika. In: vesti-online.com . August 17, 2013, accessed on September 15, 2020 (Serbian, "SDS: Open Door for Krajišnik").
↑ Умро Момчило Крајишник. In: rtv.rs . September 15, 2020, accessed September 15, 2020 (Serbian).

personal data
SURNAME	Krajišnik, Momčilo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Крајишник, Момчило
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Yugoslav or Bosnian-Serb politician and war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH	January 20, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sarajevo
DATE OF DEATH	September 15, 2020
Place of death	Banja Luka

[1] War criminal Krajisnik dies Corona death. In: n-tv.de . September 15, 2020, accessed September 16, 2020 .

[2] Former Bosnian Serb leader died of Corona. In: deutschlandfunk.de . September 15, 2020, accessed September 16, 2020 .

[3] SDS: Otvorena vrata za Krajišnika. In: vesti-online.com . August 17, 2013, accessed on September 15, 2020 (Serbian, "SDS: Open Door for Krajišnik").

[4] Умро Момчило Крајишник. In: rtv.rs . September 15, 2020, accessed September 15, 2020 (Serbian).