Milan Babić [SEP] date of death
Milan Babić
Milan Babić (; 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,
of "Krajina" were Knin locals: Milan Martić, a former police inspector later sentenced to 35 years imprisonment by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes, and Milan Babić, a dentist who after pleading guilty to war crimes at the ICTY committed suicide. Serbs held the town until Croatian forces captured it during Operation Storm on August 5, 1995. The date is today marked as a Victory Day in Croatia.
In February 2015, during the Croatia–Serbia genocide case, the