Mićo Stanišić (born 30 June 1954) is a Bosnian Serb politician. Stanišić was born in the village of

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. He graduated from the Sarajevo Law School. From 21 December 1991, Stanišić was

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of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia-Herzegovina. From 1 April 1992, he was the Minister of the

Republika Srpska Republika Srpska ( sr-Cyrl, Република Српска, ; also referred to as the Republic of Srpska or Serb Republic) is one of the two Political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, entities within Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other bein ...

Ministry of Internal Affairs. During the

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he organized the Pahuljice Special Police Unit (''Snowflakes'') that battled in

under commander Dušan Malović, a notable Serbian mafioso connected with the Voždovac Clan. The unit is suspected of committing a massacre of 22 people, among them children, on 25 November 1992 in

Bijeljina Bijeljina ( sr-cyrl, Бијељина) is a city and municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the provincial center of Semberija, a geographic region in the country's northeast. As of 2013, it has a population of 107,715 ...

. Stanišić surrendered himself to the Hague Tribunal on 11 March 2005. He stood trial for persecution of non-Serbs of 20 municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. On 27 March 2013 Stanišić was sentenced to 22 years in jail by the war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

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