Stojan Župljanin
Stojan Župljanin ( Serbian Стојан Жупљанин; born September 28, 1951 in Maslovar, Yugoslavia ) is a former Bosnian police chief and convicted war criminal .
As police chief of the Bosnian Serbs during the Bosnian War , he was in charge of the supervision and control of the police forces that were responsible for the prison camps. It is believed that he played an important role in the destruction of Bosniak and Croatian villages in the Bosanska Krajina . He has been wanted as a war criminal for genocide , crimes against humanity and other war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia since 1999 . Župljanin worked for Radovan Karadžić , who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019.
On June 11, 2008, Župljanin was arrested near Belgrade by special forces of the police and the secret service. He was then transferred to the war crimes tribunal in Belgrade. Ten days after his arrest, Župljanin was extradited to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
On March 27, 2013, he was found guilty in The Hague and sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Suspected War Criminal Zupljanin taken Der Spiegel 11 June, 2008
- ↑ Suspected war criminal extradited Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 21, 2008
- ^ War Crimes Tribunal Sentences Serbs (BBC) , accessed March 27, 2013.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Župljanin, Stojan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Жупљанин, Стојан (Serbian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bosnian police chief and suspected war criminal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Maslovar, Bosnia-Herzegovina |