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Milan Babić
Sign in to saveFirst President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina 1991–1992
Key facts
- President
- Milan Martić
- Preceded by
- Borislav Mikelić
- Succeeded by
- Position abolished
- Prime minister
- Dušan Vještica
- Born
- ( 1956-02-25 ) 25 February 1956, Kukar , PR Croatia , FPR Yugoslavia (modern Croatia )
- Died
- 5 March 2006 (2006-03-05) (aged 50), The Hague , Netherlands
- Cause of death
- Suicide by hanging
- Party
- Serb Democratic
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Milan
- Family name
- Babić
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Serbia
- Place of death
- The Hague
- Occupation
- dentist
- Educated at
- University of Belgrade
- Political party
- League of Communists of Yugoslavia
- Languages spoken
- Serbian
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Image
- Milan Babic ICTY.png
- Convicted of
- crime against humanity
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- date of death
- 2006-03-05
- date of birth
- 1956-02-26
- manner of death
- Suicide
- cause of death
- hanging to death
- name in native language
- Милан Бабић
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- Milan Babić
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Encyclopedic overview
Milan Babić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Бабић; 25 February 1956 – 5 March 2006) was a Croatian Serb former dental specialist, politician and convicted war criminal who served as the first president of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, a self-proclaimed state largely populated by Serbs of Croatia that wished to break away from Croatia during the Croatian War of Independence.
After the war, he was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 2004 and was the first ever indictee to plead guilty and enter a plea bargain with the prosecution, after which he was sentenced to 13 years in prison. Babić expressed "shame and remorse" in a public statement and asked his "Croatian brothers to forgive their Serb brothers" for their actions.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Milan Babić” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.