Milan Gvero Milan Gvero Milan Gvero (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Гверо) (4 December 1937 – 17 February 2013) was a retired Bosnian Serb Army (VRS/Army of Republika Srpska) general sentenced to five years in jail by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Bosnian War of 1992-95. In response to Radovan Karadžić's attempt to remove Ratko Mladić as commander of the Bosnian Serb military in early August 1995, General Gvero detained Karadžić for a day in the last week of August, and berated him for his hostility to Mladić
Yugoslav People's Army withdrawal from Bosnia (1992) referendum was in favor of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats, but of Bosnian Serbs, therefore the Bosnian Serbs boycotted the referendum. The turnout was 64.3% of which 99.7% of the votes were in favor of the Bosnian independence, thus on March 3 1992 the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Alija Izetbegovic declared the independence of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Yugoslav People's Army had a concept of "Total National Defence", which gave the army a role to defend the borders from aggressors. According to some sources, the higher officials of the Yugoslav People's Army stated