Stojan Župljanin
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Stojan Župljanin (born 1951) was a Serbian police commander.
Stojan Župljanin was born in 1951 in Maslovare, a village in Bosnia-Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia. As commander of the Bosnian Serb police during the Bosnian Serb war, Župljanin had operational control over the police forces responsible for the detention camps where thousands of prisoners were allegedly held in horrific conditions and many were murdered. Župljanin is also alleged to have played a central role in the destruction of Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat communities in the Autonomous Region of Krajina. Intelligence reports have suggested that Župljanin is within reach of authorities in Serbia. In October 2005, Župljanin's home was raided by local police and by EU peacekeepers, but they failed to find him.
He is charged with genocide; crimes against humanity; violations of the laws or customs of war; grave breaches of the Geneva Convention.
