Loganville Man, Former Concentration Camp Guard, Convicted

LOGANVILLE, GA -- A Loganville man originally from Serbia was convicted Wednesday of getting his U.S. citizenship by fraud.

Mladen Mitrovic was charged with failing to disclose that he was a guard at a Bosnian concentration camp, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

Mitrovic, who has lived in the Atlanta area for the past two decades, was found guilty of giving false answers on his 2002 naturalization application.

On one of the questions, Mitrovic said he had never persecuted anyone because of race, religion or national origin.

He will be sentenced at a later date and faces up to 10 years in prison and deportation.

Federal prosecutors accused Mitrovic of war crimes including beating and torturing prisoners. The camp was part of Serbia's ethnic cleansing of Roman Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosnians by Orthodox Christian Serbian forces in the former Yugoslavia.

To read the original report in the AJC, click here.