STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Bosnian Serb war criminal Miroslav Deronjic has died in a hospital in Sweden, a prison official said yesterday.

Deronjic, 52, had been serving a 10-year sentence in Sweden for war crimes.


He died Saturday night "from natural causes after a long illness," said Christer Isaksson, head of security at the Swedish Prison and Probation Service.

Deronjic - the top authority in the eastern Bosnian city of Bratunac during the 1992 to 1995 Bosnian War - was convicted of ordering a 1992 attack on a Bosnian village in which 65 civilians were killed.

The war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, sentenced him in 2004, and he was transferred last year to a prison in Sweden.

The court said in its judgment that Deronjic had admitted ordering subordinates "to attack the undefended and disarmed village of Glogova, burn it down, and forcibly displace its Bosnian Muslim residents."