Janko Bobetko

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Listen to Janko Bobetko ? / i (born January 10, 1919 in Crnac, to Sisak , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ; †  April 29, 2003 in Zagreb , Croatia ) was a general of the Yugoslav People's Army and the Croatian Armed Forces . Audio file / audio sample

Life

During World War II he was brigade commander under Tito's partisans and later became a lieutenant and later a general in the period that followed the war . Bobetko was the political commissioner of the 32nd Division and the Brigade.

Bobetko was also involved in the Croatian Spring . During the Croatian War he was Stožerni General ("General of Staff") and was between 1992 and 1995 in the Council of Croatian Generals. He was chief of the general staff of the HV and commander of the southern front and the 5th Army District. Bobetko was involved as a military leader in the Battle of Dubrovnik , Operation Maslenica , Operation Čagalj , Operation Medak and Operation Blitz .

In 1995 Bobetko retired from the army and was elected to the Croatian parliament as a representative of the HDZ . His successor as chief of staff was Zvonimir Červenko .

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Bobetko is believed to be partly responsible for war crimes during the Medak military operation . He was therefore indicted in 2002 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia as commander in chief of the military operation . Bobetko denied having committed or ordered war crimes. The Croatian government refused to extradite the former general until his death.

Janko Bobetko was later named in the ICTY's indictment against Ante Gotovina , Mladen Markač and Ivan Čermak as a member of a criminal organization whose aim was the permanent expulsion of the Serbian population from the territory of the Republic of Serbian Krajina . On November 16, 2012, the Appeals Chamber decided with a 3-2 majority that the evidence was insufficient to consider the shelling of the cities ordered by Gotovina and Markač to be illegal. Since the first instance conviction for the formation of a criminal association for the expulsion of Serbs from the Krajina is based on the illegality of the artillery attacks and the first instance did not establish a direct involvement in Croatia's policy of discrimination, the previous conviction should be overturned.

Fonts

  • Sve moje bitke [All my battles ] . 1996.

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Judgment Summary for Gotovina et al. (PDF; 90 kB) Retrieved February 3, 2012 . ICTY.org
  2. ↑ Appeals Chamber acquits and Orders Release of Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markač , press release of the International Criminal Court of 16 November 2012 called on 16 November 2012 found.
  3. ↑ Summary of the appeal judgment (PDF; 107 kB; English)
  4. ↑ Detailed appeal judgment (PDF; 1 MB; English)
personal data
SURNAME Bobetko, Janko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian army general
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Crnac at Sisak
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 2003
Place of death Zagreb