Bosnian Serb war criminal dies of Covid

A Bosnian Serb political leader who was jailed for 20 years by a UN court for his role in Bosnia’s 1990s war died of coronavirus yesterday.

Momcilo Krajisnik, 75, a former key ally of the Bosnian Serbs’ wartime political leader Radovan Karadzic, passed away in a hospital in the northern town of Banja Luka, the hospital said in a statement quoted by state media.

During Bosnia’s 1992-1995 conflict Krajisnik, a hardline Serb nationalist who was fiercely antiMuslim, served as speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament.