Momcilo Krajisnik
Bosnian Serb political leader
Died when: 75 years 239 days (907 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Momčilo Krajišnik (Serbian Cyrillic: Момчило Крајишник; 20 January 1945 – 15 September 2020) was a Bosnian Serb political leader, who along with Radovan Karadžić co-founded the Bosnian Serb nationalist Serb Democratic Party (SDS).
Between 1990 and 1992, he was speaker of the People's Assembly of Republika Srpska.Between June and December 1992, Krajišnik also served as a member of the expanded Presidency of Republika Srpska.
After the Bosnian War, he was elected Serb member of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the September 1996 election and served in that post from October 1996 until October 1998.
He lost his bid for re-election in 1998 to Živko Radišić.In 2006, Krajišnik was found guilty of committing crimes against humanity during the Bosnian War (1992–95) by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
He was later granted early release on 1 September 2013 and returned to Republika Srpska.Krajišnik died on 15 September 2020, in Banja Luka, as a result of complications caused by COVID-19.