Stanko Sopta

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Stanko Sopta (called Baja ; born February 4, 1966 in Dužice , to Široki Brijeg ) is a former member of the Kažnjenička bojna , general of the Croatian Defense Council (HVO) and the Croatian Armed Forces (HV) out of service, as well as a politician ( HDZ BiH ).

Life

Sopta was born on February 4, 1966 as the son of Božo Sopta in the small town of Dužice in Herzegovina .

Military background

1985 finished his military service in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) . He later studied at the Faculty of Physics (Faculty za fizičku kulturu , since 2001 Kineziološki facultet ) of the University of Zagreb .

When the Croatian war broke out, Sopta volunteered at the anti-terrorist unit Lučko ( Antiteroristička jedinica Lučko ), a special unit of the Croatian police and the first Croatian unit of the war. On September 15, 1991 he was registered as a soldier in the Croatian Army (identification number 0402966152401) and qualified as a military instructor.

After the outbreak of the Bosnian War he became a member of the Kažnjenička bojna (KB), a special unit of the Croatian Defense Council (HVO) in his home municipality. There he was first commander ( Zapovjednik ) of a combat group and from June 26, 1992 deputy commander of the KB.

From October 2, 1992 he was in command of the 3rd Guard Brigade ( 3rd Gardijska brigada ) of the HVO. Among other things, he was wounded between January 15 and 23, 1993 in fighting in Gornji Vakuf .

On October 2, 1993, Sopta became the commander of the HVO's 2nd Guard Brigade. Since December 29, 1993 with the rank of Colonel ( Brigadir ), he also commanded the unit in early August 1995 during Operation Oluja .

On April 18, 1994 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel ( Pukovnik ) in the Croatian Army (HV).

After the Bosnian War Sopta became the commander of the 1st Croatian Guard Corps of the Army of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( 1st hrvatski gardijski zbor Vojske Federacije BiH ). He was suspended from this post in late August 1998.

After 2001 he was retired with the rank of major general ( General Bojnik ). A total of 1,754 days of deployment in the combat area are credited to Sopta. He receives retirement pensions from the Republic of Croatia amounting to 12,800 kuna and from the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina amounting to 1,700 convertible marks . Converted to a total of around 2,570 euros (as of August 2013).

Political activity

After the Bosnian War he was also politically active as a member of the Croatian Democratic Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ BiH) .

In the keynote address for the inauguration of an oversized cross on Mount Hum above Mostar in June 2000, Sopta said that the city of Mostar is "the capital of the Croatian nation" in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

Awards (selection)

Others

Sopta is said to have had an affair with the Croatian pop singer Severina . She is said to have dedicated the song Pogled ispod obrva (Look under the eyebrow), published in 2001, to him, alluding to his strong eyebrows .

It was thanks to the operation of Sopta and the support of the then Croatian Defense Minister Gojko Šušak that in 1996/97 the thoroughfare and the church square in Sopta's hometown Dužice were paved and the primary school in the neighboring village of Rasno was renovated.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See also: USA - Central Intelligence Agency (CIA): Balkan battlegrounds: a military history of the Yugoslav conflict . CIA - Office of Russian and European Analysis, 2002, p. 419 ( online at: books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ Hrvatska Radiotelevizija (HRT), report dated August 31, 1998. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 5, 2009 ; Retrieved August 19, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hrt.hr
  3. ↑ Registrar Branitelja (Register of the back); official register of the war participants at the competent Croatian ministry. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 4, 2013 ; accessed on May 16, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / registar.branitelji.hr
  4. ↑ Otvoreno.ba: Generali s 18,000 kn mirovine bit će prijavljeni DORH-u; Lozančić stekao 600,000 kuna. Report dated January 24, 2013 following an investigation by Radio Slobodna Europa. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 26, 2013 ; Retrieved August 20, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.otvoreno.ba
  5. ↑ Sumantra Bose: Bosnia after Dayton: nationalist partition and international intervention . Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-19-515848-2 , pp. 142 ( online at: books.google.de ).
  6. ↑ Awarded May 26, 1995, 01-051-95-7-1 / 1, In: Narodne novine. Retrieved August 19, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Awarded on April 21, 1997, 01-012-97-48 / 1, In: Narodne novine, No. 120, November 10, 1997. Accessed on August 19, 2013 .
  8. ^ Svet (Serbian tabloid magazine): Sve ljubavi “Seve Internacionale” . Retrieved August 19, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Ivan Dugandžić / Dr. Josip Sopta: Rasno-Dužice: Župa Rasno [Rasno-Dužice: Rasno Parish] . Matica hrvatska - Ogranak Široki Brijeg i Župni ured Rasno, Rasno-Dužice 1999, p. 238, 353 .
personal data
SURNAME Sopta, Stanko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian general
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Dužice