Milan Martić
| Milan Martić Милан Мартић |
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Martić in 1991
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| 3rd President of Republic of Serbian Krajina | |
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In office 26 January 1994 – 7 August 1995 |
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| Prime Minister |
Borislav Mikelić Milan Babić Milorad Buha |
| Preceded by | Goran Hadžić |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
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| Born |
18 December 1954 Knin, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia |
| Nationality | Serb |
| Political party | Serbian Party of Socialists |
| Profession | Chief of police |
| Religion | Serbian Orthodox |
Milan Martić (Serbian: Милан Мартић; born 18 November 1954) is a Croatian Serb convicted war criminal and former president of the unrecognized Republic of Serbian Krajina. He was a senior rebel commander of Serbian forces in Yugoslavia during the Croatian War of Independence.
Martić was convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on 12 June 2007 and sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Martić was born on 18 November 1954 in the village of Žagrović, in the Knin municipality. He graduated from the Post-Secondary Police School in Zagreb and between 1976 and 1981 worked as a policeman at the Public Security Station (SJB) in Šibenik. After 1982, Martić was a Junior Police Inspector in Knin and was eventually promoted to Chief of the SJB.
He was the local police chief in Knin at the time of Croatia's declaration of independence. In 1990, he took on the position of local Serb leader, organizing the Milicija Krajina militia also known as Martić's Police. From 4 January 1991 to August 1995, Martić held various leadership positions, including President, Minister of Defence, Minister of Internal Affairs, in Serbian Autonomous District (SAO) Krajina and the Republic of Serbian Krajina (both unrecognised). Also in 1991, Serbian opposition leader Vuk Drašković claimed Martić and Goran Hadžić had organized an assassination attempt on him. Martić replied that this was "an ordinary stupidity" and that "if he were to organize an assassination attempt, he would go through with it." Martić was also critical of Drašković as Drašković called against mobilization and called for desertion.
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