Milomir Stakić (born 19 January 1962 in Marićka,

Prijedor Prijedor ( sr-cyrl, Приједор, ) is a city in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it had a population of 80,916 inhabitants within its administrative limits. Prijedor is situated in the northwestern part of the Bosanska ...

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) is a

Bosnian Serb The Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sr-Cyrl, Срби Босне и Херцеговине, Srbi Bosne i Hercegovine), often referred to as Bosnian Serbs ( sr-cyrl, босански Срби, bosanski Srbi) or Herzegovinian Serbs ( sr-cyrl, � ...

who was charged with

genocide Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people. Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" by ...

, complicity in genocide, violations of the customs of war and

crimes against humanity Crimes against humanity are certain serious crimes committed as part of a large-scale attack against civilians. Unlike war crimes, crimes against humanity can be committed during both peace and war and against a state's own nationals as well as ...

by the

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes in the Yugoslav Wars, war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to tr ...

(ICTY) for his actions in the

region during the

Bosnian War The Bosnian War ( / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. Following several earlier violent incid ...

. In the 1991 elections he became Vice-President of the Prijedor Municipal Assembly as a member of the Serbian Democratic Party. He soon established a parallel Serb shadow government in the region. He faced eight charges in all, ranging from genocide and extermination, to deportation and persecution in the form of destroying local villages as well as mosques and Catholic churches. He was eventually found guilty of five charges, and acquitted of three counts of genocide. The court ruled: "Despite the comprehensive pattern of atrocities against non-Serbs in Prijedor, the trial chamber has not found this to be a case of genocide, rather it is a case of persecution, deportation and extermination." He was sentenced to life imprisonment, which was later reduced to forty years through the appeals process. In January 2007 he was transferred to France to serve his sentence of 40 years' imprisonment. At least until April 2011 "''Mr Stakić did not co-operate with the Prosecution in the course of his trial, appeal, or enforcement of his sentence.''" In July 2011 the court "''declines to grant Mr. Milomir Stakić sentence remission.''" Decision of President of the International Tribunal 15 July 2011 on early release of Milomir Stakić

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Politicians of Republika Srpska 1962 births Living people People from Prijedor People convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina convicted of war crimes Bosnia and Herzegovina people imprisoned abroad Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina convicted of crimes against humanity Serb Democratic Party (Bosnia and Herzegovina) politicians {{crime-bio-stub

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