Milan Gvero and the army high command. On 17 February 2013, Gvero died at the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade, aged 75, from undisclosed causes. 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
Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina like "Sana". Bosnian and Croat armies were on the offensive in this phase, captured all of western Bosnia, and the Serb capital Banja Luka was seriously threatened, until peace negotiations stopped further bloodshed. From August to December 1995, Serb forces were defeated and driven out of the majority of Croatia and western Bosnia, and the ethnic Serb population fled from these parts. Following the second Markale massacre, NATO intervention was launched, which destroyed much of the VRS infrastructure in just a few days (Operation Deliberate Force). The war ended with the signing of the Dayton Accord. The army was divided