Veljko Kadijevic

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Veljko Kadijević ( Serbian - Cyrillic Вељко Кадијевић ; born November 21, 1925 in Glavina near Imotski , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ; †  November 2, 2014 in Moscow ) was Yugoslavia's Defense Minister (SFRY) between 1988 and 1992 . Veljko Kadijević last lived in Moscow as a Russian citizen.

Life

Veljko Kadijević joined the Yugoslav Partisans in 1942 , became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, fought against the occupiers and continued his career in the Yugoslav People's Army after the war . In the 1960s he was one of six selected officers who were sent by Tito to the US Military Academy at West Point , New York . He became the SFRY's fifth defense minister . After the collapse of the Yugoslav Communist Party, he founded the Yugoslav Party of the Communist Movement in Yugoslavia.

Kadijević was held responsible for war crimes during the Croatian war by the Croatian government . Croatia brought three charges against him. In 2007 Croatia issued an arrest warrant for Interpol, but it had little prospect of success. He was mentioned in one of the indictments against ex-Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević as a member of a criminal organization. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia had not been charged .

On October 5, 2007, in Moscow, in the presence of the marshal and former Soviet defense minister Dmitri Timofejewitsch Yasov , he published his book Kontraudar , which has so far only been printed in Russian , in which in particular the hegemonic efforts of the United States, Great Britain and Germany in the 1990s for the collapse of war Yugoslavia were blamed. In the book, Kadijević also particularly accused the then President of Yugoslavia, Stjepan Mesić , of planning a military coup and trying to involve him in it in order to achieve sole power in Yugoslavia. The fact that Croatia, with Mesić at its head, had only issued the arrest warrant in 2007, was explained by the sudden appearance of General a. D. , the content of the book and the video interviews made.

Kadijević, who had lived in Moscow since 2001, had been registered as a refugee there since 2005 and took Russian citizenship on August 13, 2008, which legally prevented extradition.

Works

  • Kontrudar - Moj vwojad na razval Jugoslavii . Moskva: Moskovskij izdatel'skij dom, 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General Veljko Kadijevic dies in Moscow. In: InSerbia News.info. November 3, 2014, accessed November 3, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b Branko Vlahović: Veljko Kadijević postao Rus. In: novosti.rs. September 28, 2008, accessed November 3, 2014 (Serbian).
  3. ↑ Interpol profile
  4. ^ Kadijević's book and statements
personal data
SURNAME Kadijević, Veljko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кадијевић, Вељко (SrS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Yugoslav military, Minister of Defense of Yugoslavia
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Glavina near Imotski , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
DATE OF DEATH 2nd November 2014
Place of death Moscow , Russia