US to strip alleged Bosnian struggle felony’s citizenship

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The US justice division has launched a civil authorized case in opposition to a person accused of being a Bosnian struggle felony to revoke his citizenship.

Kemal Mrndzic didn't disclose throughout his US immigration course of that he served as a guard at Bosnia's infamous Celebici jail camp, the place atrocities have been dedicated, the division stated.

A UN struggle crimes tribunal discovered that individuals held within the camp throughout the Bosnian struggle have been killed, tortured, sexually assaulted, crushed and subjected to merciless and inhuman remedy.

US President Donald Trump's administration wouldn't enable individuals who "persecute others" to "reap the advantages of refuge within the US", justice division official Brett Shumate stated.

The assistant lawyer basic added that the authorized case confirmed the worth that the US authorities positioned on "the integrity of its naturalisation course of".

Mrndzic was discovered responsible by a jury in October 2024 on a number of counts of felony fraud and misrepresentation in relation to his profitable software for a US passport and naturalisation certificates.

He did not speak in confidence to immigration authorities the character and timing of his navy service, or that "he persecuted Bosnian-Serb inmates as a jail guard", the justice division stated.

Mrndzic was sentenced in January 2025 to greater than 5 years in jail.

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The Bosnian struggle adopted the break-up of Soviet Yugoslavia within the early Nineteen Nineties and led to the Srebrenica bloodbath in July 1995.

Srebrenica, recognised by the UN as a genocide, grew to become often called Europe's worst mass atrocity since World Struggle Two, after Bosnian-Serb forces systematically murdered greater than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim males and boys.

The Celebici jail camp was operated by Bosniak and Bosnian-Croat forces, who have been additionally accountable for widespread killings in areas they managed.

Serbian chief Slobodan Milosevic was tried for struggle crimes and genocide, and the bloodbath led to the US-brokered Dayton Peace Settlement on 14 December 1995.