ICTY: Momcilo Krajisnik Transferred to Prison in UK
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Momcilo Krajisnik was sentenced on 17 March 2009 by the Appellate Chamber of the Hague Tribunal, which found him guilty of deportations, forcible transfer and persecution of Bosnian Muslim and Croat civilians including women, children and elderly persons. These crimes were committed between April and December 1992 in the municipalities of Zvornik, Banja Luka, Sanski Most, Sokolac, Prnjavor, Bratunac, Bijeljina, Bosanska Krupa and Trnovo.
During and immediately after the war Krajisnik held a variety of senior positions in the Bosnian Serb leadership. He was the President of the Bosnian Serb Assembly, a member of the Main Board of the Serbian Democratic Party, and a member of the National Security Council and member of Bosnian Presidency.
He was found to have participated in a joint criminal enterprise whose objective was to ethnically recompose the territories under the control of Bosnian Serbs by drastically reducing the proportion of non-Serbs through the commission of various crimes.
Accused accomplices in this criminal enterprise are Radovan Karadzic and other Bosnian-Serb leaders.
Since its inception 16 years ago, the Tribunal has indicted 161 persons for serious violations of humanitarian law committed on the territory of former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 2001.
Proceedings against 120 persons have been concluded. Two more persons are on the run – Ratko Mladic, indicted for crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Goran Hadzic, indicted for crimes in Croatia.
