Stojan Župljanin

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Stojan Župljanin (Serbian Cyrillic: Стојан Жупљанин; born September 28, 1951) is a former Bosnian Serb police commander.

Župljanin was born in Maslovare, a village in the Kotor Varoš municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As commander of the Bosnian Serb police during the Bosnian war, Župljanin had operational control over the police forces responsible for the detention camps where thousands of prisoners were held in horrific conditions and many were murdered. Župljanin is also alleged to have played a central role in the destruction of Bosniak and Bosnian Croat communities in the Autonomous Region of Krajina.

On 14 March 1999 he was charged by ICTY with genocide, crimes against humanity, violations of the laws and customs of war and grave breacees of the Geneva Conventions.[1]

In October 2005, Župljanin's home was raided by local police and by EU peacekeepers, but they failed to find him. He was arrested on June 11, 2008 not far from Belgrade, Serbia and extradited to the ICTY.[2]