Radislav Krstić
| Radislav Krstic | |
|---|---|
| Born |
15 February 1948 Vlasenica, FPR Yugoslavia |
| Allegiance |
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Republic of Serbian Krajina Republika Srpska |
| Years of service | 1967–1995 |
| Rank | Major General |
| Commands held |
Pristina Corps, Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) 2nd Military District Headquarters, JNA Army of Republika Srpska |
| Battles/wars | |
Radislav Krstić (Serbian Cyrillic: Радислав Крстић; born 15 February 1948) was the Deputy Commander and later Chief of Staff of the Drina Corps of the Army of Republika Srpska (the Bosnian Serb Army) from October 1994 until 12 July 1995. He was promoted to the rank of Major General in June 1995 and assumed command of the Drina Corps on 13 July 1995.
In 1998 Krstić was indicted for War Crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague in connection with the massacre of around 8,000 Bosniak POW and civilians on 11 July 1995 during the Srebrenica massacre – Europe's worst atrocity since World War II. On 2 August 2001, Krstić became the first man convicted of genocide by the Tribunal, and was sentenced to 46 years in prison. He was only the third person ever to have been convicted under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The sentence was subsequently shortened to 35 years in prison when an appeal court upheld a lesser charge for aiding and abetting genocide.
Krstić was born in Neđaljišta, Vlasenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. He attended primary school in Vlasenica and elementary school in Han Pijesak, where he also completed his secondary education in a grammar school. Krstić describes his young years as very peaceful, and the community in which he lived as "heterogeneous" and very tolerant, particularly among the youth.
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