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Milan Babić

1956 - 2006

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Milan Babić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Бабић; 25 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, after which he was sentenced to 13 years in prison. Babić expressed "shame and remorse" in a public statement and asked his "Croatian brothers to forgive their Serb brothers" for their actions. After he was sentenced in 2004, Babić was found dead in his prison cell in The Hague in March 2006, in an apparent suicide. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Milan Babić is the 6,123rd most popular politician (up from 6,169th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Croatia (up from 73rd in 2019) and the 19th most popular Croatian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Milan Babić ranks 6,123 out of 19,576. Before him are Labarna I, Shapour Bakhtiar, Kondō Isami, Khendjer, Yusuf II, Almohad caliph, and Prince Rupert of the Rhine. After him are Iveta Radičová, Arnold Gehlen, Attalus, Emperor Daigo, Dominique de Villepin, and Phraates II.

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Among people born in 1956, Milan Babić ranks 67. Before him are Almazbek Atambayev, La Toya Jackson, Hal Finney, Joan Allen, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, and Jan Peter Balkenende. After him are Iveta Radičová, El Risitas, Georg Gänswein, Catherine Ashton, Guido van Rossum, and Amado Carrillo Fuentes. Among people deceased in 2006, Milan Babić ranks 77. Before him are Joachim Fest, Rudolf Vrba, Rajkumar, Lillian Asplund, Paul Marcinkus, and W. Montgomery Watt. After him are Betty Friedan, Reinhart Koselleck, Floyd Patterson, Ferenc Bene, Lars Korvald, and Gillo Pontecorvo.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Milan Babić ranks 65 out of 700. Before him are Branko Zebec (1929), Josip Bozanić (1949), Dražen Petrović (1964), Milka Planinc (1924), Vladimir Beara (1928), and Benedetto Cotrugli (1416). After him are Viktor Pavičić (1898), Zvonimir Boban (1968), Slavko Kvaternik (1878), Ödön von Horváth (1901), Vladko Maček (1879), and Tereza Kesovija (1938).

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Among POLITICIANS In Croatia

Among politicians born in Croatia, Milan Babić ranks 19. Before him are Veljko Kadijević (1925), Tomislav of Croatia (null), Josip Juraj Strossmayer (1815), Francis, Duke of Teck (1837), Ivo Josipović (1957), and Milka Planinc (1924). After him are Slavko Kvaternik (1878), Vladko Maček (1879), Ivo Sanader (1953), Ante Starčević (1823), Archduke Wilhelm of Austria (1895), and Milan Martić (1954).

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