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U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementThe U.S. Justice Department has filed a civil lawsuit against a man accused of being a Bosnian war criminal, seeking to revoke his citizenship.
The department said Kemal Mndzic failed to disclose during the U.S. immigration process that he had worked as a guard at Bosnia’s notorious Serabisi prison camp, where atrocities occurred.
one war crimes tribunal People held in refugee camps during the Bosnian war were found to have been killed, tortured, sexually assaulted, beaten and subjected to cruel and inhumane treatment.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration will not allow people who “persecute others” to “receive the benefits of asylum in the United States,” Justice Department official Brett Shumate said.
The assistant attorney general added that the legal case demonstrates the importance the U.S. government places on the “integrity of the naturalization process.”
Mrndzic was found guilty by a jury in October 2024 of multiple counts of criminal fraud and false statements related to his successful application for a U.S. passport and certificate of naturalization.
The Justice Department said he failed to disclose to immigration authorities the nature and duration of his military service or “his persecution of Bosnian Serb prisoners as a prison guard.”
Mrndzic was sentenced to more than five years in prison in January 2025.
U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementThe Bosnian War broke out after the collapse of the Soviet Union in Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, leading to the Srebrenica Massacre July 1995.
Srebrenica, Considered a genocide by the United NationsBosnian-Serb forces systematically murdered more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in what has been called Europe’s worst mass atrocity since World War II.
Serabisi prison camp is run by Bosnian Croats and the Bosnian Croat army, who are also responsible for mass killings in areas they control.
Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic on trial for war crimes, genocide, massacre leads to U.S. mediation dayton peace accords December 14, 1995.
