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Jadranko Prlic, who hears an appeals verdict over his war crimes conviction this week, is an academic who became leader of a self-proclaimed statelet for Croats during Bosnia's bitter 1990s conflict.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The one-time prime minister of the \"Croatian Republic of Herceg-Bosna\", Prlic was sentenced to 25 years in jail in 2013 by UN judges at The Hague on charges of aiding and abetting the murder, deportation and harsh detention of Muslims.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the 58-year-old and five other wartime Bosnian Croat leaders will hear the verdict on their appeal case -- the last judgement to be handed down by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).<\/p>\n

The bald and bespectacled Prlic, who vehemently denied the charges, told the court in March that his trial represented \"a dark side of international justice\".<\/p>\n

Along with Croatian nationalist leader Franjo Tudjman, Prlic took part in a \"joint criminal enterprise\" to drive out Muslims from parts of Bosnia with the aim of allying the statelet with Croatia, the court said in its original ruling.<\/p>\n

Bosnian Croats and Muslims, allies against Serbs during most of the war in ethnically diverse Bosnia, turned against each other in 1993, when the Croats' \"republic\" was declared.<\/p>\n

The statelet, backed by Tudjman's regime, was formally dismantled in 1996 as part of the peace deal that ended the 1992-1995 war, which left 100,000 people dead.<\/p>\n

Sead Avdic, a Bosnian Muslim politician, in 2002 described Prlic as \"lucid, thoughtful, hypocritical\".<\/p>\n

- 'Not a great extremist' -<\/h3>\n

The \"president\" of Herceg-Bosna, Mate Boban, died in 1997 and Tudjman in 1999, leaving Prlic the highest-ranking official to face judgement for the crimes.<\/p>\n

\"Who was in the most dangerous position during the war? Me. Because I am not a great extremist,\" Prlic told AFP in 1996.<\/p>\n

Prlic was born in the eastern Croatian town of Djakovo in 1959 and joined the League of Communists, Yugoslavia's ruling party, in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

He obtained a doctorate in Sarajevo in 1987 -- one of the youngest people in the federation to do so.<\/p>\n

The lecturer served as mayor of Mostar, the southern Bosnian city whose bridge would later be destroyed, becoming a symbol of the war.<\/p>\n

Although he became a visiting professor at universities in the United States, Britain, Italy, he turned down a full-time job in Washington as a young and promising economist.<\/p>\n

Prlic later explained that the \"quality of life\" in Mostar was \"better than it could be anywhere in the US\".<\/p>\n

He also served as deputy prime minister in Bosnia's last communist government.<\/p>\n

After the clashes between Muslims and Croats ended, Prlic held various high-level posts in the newly-formed Croat-Muslim entity in Bosnia.<\/p>\n

- 'Insecure' Croats -<\/h3>\n

After the war, Prlic went on to become Bosnia's foreign minister from 1996 to 2001 and tried to present himself as a moderate, founding an unsuccessful pro-European party.<\/p>\n

The ICTY charged him and his co-defendants in 2004. They surrendered and their trial opened two years later.<\/p>\n

Prlic, who according to the charges had the authority to close Herceg-Bosna's prisons and concentration camps, argued that the statelet's only aim was to ensure Croats' rights in a \"new Bosnia\".<\/p>\n

\"Steps undertaken by the Muslim side resulted in the insecurity of Croats in Bosnia,\" he told the tribunal.<\/p>\n

Prlic published several books on economics and politics and in prison wrote a 2,000-page tome on Herceg-Bosna.<\/p>\n

\"I think I had a rich life... I would probably do some things differently, but in principle I believe I was always where I had to be,\" he said in 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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