Simo Drljača ( sh-Cyrl, Симо Дрљача; 6 August 194710 July 1997) was an indicted war criminal, police chief and member of the crisis staff of the municipality of

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 ...

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 ...

. On 10 July 1997 British special forces serving with the

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-led Stabilisation Force attempted to arrest Drljača in northwestern Bosnia, and when he fired at them, slightly wounding one, they returned fire and killed him.

Early life and career

Simo Drljača was born on 6 August 1947 at

Bosanska Krupa Bosanska Krupa ( sr-cyrl, Босанска Крупа) is a city located in the Una-Sana Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 29,659 inhabitants. It is situat ...

in the

Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Bosna i Hercegovina, Социјалистичка Pепублика Босна и Херцеговина), commonly referred to as Socia ...

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. On 30 April 1992 he was appointed the chief of the public security station for the municipality of

. He was indicted for the crime of

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 ...

by the

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in 1996. The indictment was amended in 1997.

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* * * * * * * 1947 births 1997 deaths People from Sanski Most Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina police officers People indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia {{Law-enforcement-bio-stub Deaths by firearm in Bosnia and Herzegovina