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Mladen Mitrovic: Mitrovic

Human Rights Violators Dept: Mladen Mitrovic, 52, was released on bond following a court appearance Monday on federal charges that he obtained citizenship through fraudulent omissions about his background. A judge gave him 10 days to hire a lawyer. A working phone number for Mitrovic could not immediately be found Monday, according to Vancouver Sun. "The Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Unit of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE continues to work with officials from Bosnia and Herzegovina to locate concentration camp guards who emigrated under false pretenses to the United States after the Bosnian War," U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said in a statement. "This defendant will now have to face many of the former Bosnian Muslim prisoners who suffered at his hand in the Trnopolje Concentration Camp." ATLANTA - A Bosnian man now living in Georgia failed to disclose his work as a Serbian concentration camp guard during the Bosnian War when he applied for and obtained U.S. citizenship, federal prosecutors said Mitrovic, a Bosnian native, applied to be a U.S. citizen in October 2002, but failed to disclose that as a guard at a Serbian concentration camp he persecuted people because of their religion, national origin and membership in a particular social group, prosecutors said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.