Blaž Kraljević Military person

Blaž Nikola Kraljević (16 September 1947 – 9 August 1992) was a Bosnian Croat paramilitary leader who commanded the Croatian Defence Forces (HOS) during the Bosnian War. An immigrant to Australia, Kraljević joined the Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood (HRB) upon his arrival there in 1967. During his return to Yugoslavia in January 1992 he was appointed by Dobroslav Paraga, leader of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP), as leader of the HOS in Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the Bosnian War he advocated a Croat–Bosniak alliance, a view that ran counter to those of the Croatian government led by Croatian president Franjo Tuđman and his Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party. He denounced attempts by Mate Boban, president of the self-proclaimed Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, and Radovan Karadžić, president of the self-proclaimed Republika Srpska, to divide Bosnia and Herzegovina and was appointed by Bosnian president Alija Izetbegović as a member of Staff of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH), shortly before his assassination by Croatian Defence Council (HVO) soldiers under the command of Mladen Naletilić.

Personal facts

Birth dateSeptember 16, 1947
Birth place
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , Lisice (Ljubuški)
Date of deathAugust 09, 1992
Place of death
Mostar , Herzegovina
Resting place
Mostar

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Military person

award
Order of Petar Zrinski and Fran Krsto Frankopan
military operations
Bosnian War
military branch
Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatian Defence Forces
military commandCroatian Defence Forces
service start1991
service end1992

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