Alija Izetbegović

The ICTY Prosecutor's Office confirmed that Izetbegović was among the suspects under investigation concerning crimes committed during the Bosnian war. The investigation remained incomplete when he died in October 2003.

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After the war, Izetbegović and the SDA faced persistent criticism concerning patronage, political corruption and the waste or mismanagement of some international aid.

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US officials claimed that Iranian agents had delivered at least $500,000 in cash for Izetbegović's political campaign, prompting controversy in Washington over Tehran's influence in post-war Bosnia.

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In the Delić judgment, the ICTY noted that the El Mujahid Detachment had direct access to President Izetbegović, that representatives had secured the transfer of Bosnian Army soldiers to the unit following consultations with him, and that he participated in discussions about disbanding it before Dayton.

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On 18 March 1992, Izetbegović, Radovan Karadžić and Mate Boban accepted in principle a European framework providing for constituent units based partly on ethnic criteria. Izetbegović subsequently distanced himself from it, and negotiations continued without producing a final agreement.

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Izetbegović and other Muslim intellectuals were tried in 1983 for political and ideological offences. He received a fourteen-year sentence, part of which was subsequently challenged or reduced, before his release under the 1988 amnesty.

Izetbegović circulated the Islamic Declaration, a text calling for Islamic renewal and containing passages hostile to coexistence between Islamic faith and non-Islamic institutions in Muslim-majority states. The text subsequently fuelled accusations of fundamentalism made by his opponents.

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At 21, Izetbegović was sentenced by a Yugoslav military court to three years' imprisonment for membership of the Young Muslims organisation, together with acts relating to his opposition to the new regime and assistance given to a friend seeking to evade military service.

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