- Mićo Stanišić
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Mićo Stanišić (born 30 June, 1954 in Ponor village near Pale, Bosnia and Herzegovina). He graduated from law school in Sarajevo, and from 21 December, 1991, Stanišić was Minister Without Portfolio of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia-Herzegovina which was named by the Assembly of the Serbian People of Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 1 April 1992, he was the Minister of the newly established Republika Srpska Ministry of Internal Affairs in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
During the Yugoslav wars he organized the Pahuljice Special Police Unit (Snowflakes) that battled in Republika Srpska under commander Dušan Malović, a notable Serbian mafioso connected with the Voždovac Clan. The unit is suspected of committing a massacre of 22 people, among them children, on November 25, 1992 in Bijeljina.[1]
Stanišić surrendered himself to the Hague Tribunal on March 11, 2005. He is standing trial for persecution of non-Serbs of 20 municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1]
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