Stanislav Galic

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Stanislav Galić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Станислав Галић ; born March 12, 1943 in Goles , Bosnia and Herzegovina ) is a former general of the Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS) and a war criminal sentenced to life imprisonment .

Life

On May 20, 1992 the JNA armed forces, which surrounded the city of Sarajevo in the course of the Bosnian War , were combined to form the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps and henceforth formed an important part of the VRS, which was under the command of Ratko Mladić and Radovan Karadžić . The headquarters of the corps was in the barracks of Lukavica , southwest of Sarajevo.

Stanislav Galić was a division general in the VRS when he took command of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps on September 10, 1992 and kept it until August 10, 1994. He was subordinate to around 18,000 fighters in 10 brigades that occupied the surrounding hills of Sarajevo and committed numerous war crimes against civilians. The corps employed a military strategy aimed at killing, maiming, wounding and terrorizing the civilian population of Sarajevo through ambush gunfire and bombing. The attacks, which killed around 12,000 civilians of both sexes and ages, were without any military connection and aimed at permanently terrifying the residents. This included the destruction of numerous historical, cultural and symbolic buildings.

Stanislav Galić was arrested by SFOR on December 20, 1999 and extradited to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , where he was sentenced on December 5, 2003 to 20 years in prison. After an appeal hearing, he was sentenced to life imprisonment on November 30, 2006. On January 15, 2009, he was transferred to Germany to serve his sentence.

The individual charges included the apparently targeted bombardment of the Markale market square, which was overcrowded with civilians, resulting in over 100 deaths ( Markale massacre ) and the actions of regular VRS snipers against men, women and children throughout the city.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stanislav Galić Transferred to Germany To Serve Sentence. ICTY, January 15, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Galic, Stanislav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Галић, Станислав (Serbian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian general of the VRS
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Goles , Bosnia and Herzegovina