Milan Babić, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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First President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina 1991–1992
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About Milan Babić
- Milan Babic (Serbian Cyrillic: ????? ?????; 26 February 1956 – 5 March 2006) was a Croatian Serb politician 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.
- Babic expressed "shame and remorse" in a public statement and declared that his plea bargain was intended to relieve the collective shame of the Croatian Serbs, and asked his "Croatian brothers to forgive their Serb brothers" for their actions. After he was sentenced in 2004, Babic was found dead in his prison cell in The Hague in March 2006, in an apparent suicide.
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