Željko Glasnović
Major general Željko Glasnović | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Željko Glasnović |
| Born | February 24, 1954 Zagreb, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia |
| Allegiance | Canadian Army French Foreign Legion Croatian National Guard Croatian Defence Council Croatian Army |
| Battles/wars | Gulf war Croatian war for independence Bosnian war |
| Spouse(s) | not married |
| Children | no children |
| Other work | Croatian Parliament (MP) |
Željko Glasnović (February 24, 1954) is former Croatian military officer and politician. He is member of Independents for Croatia.
Biography
He was born in Zagreb in 1954 in a family of Kosovo Croats. When his family emigrated to Canada, he became a member of the Canadian Army in which he served for five years. The next year and a half he spent in the French Foreign Legion. He fought in the Gulf war.
Following escalation of the Croatian war for independence, he returned to homeland and join Croatian National Guard in 1991.[1] He was a military commandant in Lika, but after the Fall of Vukovar in November 1991, he was moved to Tomislavgrad, where he joined Battalion "Zrinski". He was hardly wounded around the heart in the Battle of Kupres. His soldiers transported him from Bugojno to Franciscan monastery in Rama. The next two months he spent in a Split hospital but he escaped and returned to the Kupres front. He was known as a very strict commander demanding a high level of discipline.[1]
In 1994, he became commandment of 1st brigade of Croatian Defence Council. He participated in Cincar operation and Operation Storm. President Stipe Mesić retired him in 2000.[1]
Politics
He was not politically active until Croatian parliamentary election, 2015. He was elected in the Croatian Parliament as a member of Patriotic Coalition in IX district, reserved for Croatian diaspora. During his first MP term (2015-2016) in 11th constitution, he was member of the Committee on Croats outside the Republic of Croatia, War Veterans Committee, Interparliamentary Co-operation Committee and Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the NATO.[2] Although he was elected on HDZ list, he was not a member of the party.
For the 2016 elections he formed independent list and won one seat in Croatian diaspora.[3] Presently, he joined Independents for Croatia.
He is calling upon lustration and decommunisation of Croatia.
References
- ^ a b c Večernji list Biographies: Željko Gasnović, retired general Večernji list, published 1 December 2016, accessdate 9 February 2018
- ^ Željko Glasnović Croatian Parliament. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
- ^ Croatian Parliamentary elections, 2016 - Results, district XI (diaspora) State Election Committee of the Republic of Croatia. 2016-09-16. Retrieved 2018-02-09.