Stanislav Galić

Stanislav Galić (Станислав Галић) (Born March 12, 1943) was a Serb military officer who commanded the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Galić was born in the hamlet of Goleš, in the municipality of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Prior to the beginning of the war he was an officer in the Yugoslav National Army. On September 7, 1992 he became the commander of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps (Sarajevsko-romanijskog korpusa), the unit of the VRS which besieged Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Galić remained commander of the SRK until August 10, 1994 which is when he was replaced by Dragomir Milošević.

War crimes

In 1998 the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia indicted Galić on the basis of individual responsibility on charges of murder, inhumane acts other than murder, cimes against humanity, unlawfully inflicting terror upon civilians, attacks on civilians and violations of the laws and customs of war. The indictment was sealed until Galić was arrested by SFOR on December 20, 1999. On December 5, 2003 his trial ended in a conviction and a 20 year sentence [ [http://www.un.org/icty/galic/trialc/judgement/index.htm ICTY: Galić Judgement] ] for the shelling and sniping of Sarajevo. Galić appealed the judgement and on November 30, 2006 his appeal was rejected and the appeals chamber extended his sentence from 20 years to life imprisonment. [ [http://www.un.org/icty/galic/judgment/gal-acj061130e.pdf ICTY: Galić appeal Judgement] ]

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