Janko Bobetko Military person

Janko Bobetko (10 January 1919 – 29 April 2003) was a Croatian Army general and Chief of the General Staff during the Croatian War of Independence from 1992 until his retirement in 1995. Bobetko had been charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia but died before he could be tried. He was one of the founding members of 1st Sisak Partisan Detachment, armed anti-fascist military unit in Yugoslavia.In May 2013, the ICTY, in a first-instance verdict against Jadranko Prlić, found that Bobetko took part in the joint criminal enterprise against the non-Croat population of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Personal facts

Birth dateJanuary 10, 1919
Birth place
Sisak
Date of deathApril 29, 2003
Place of death
Croatia , Zagreb

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Military person

allegianceCroatian Army
military operations
Operation Flash
Operation Jackal
Operation Medak Pocket
World War II
Operation Maslenica
Croatian War of Independence
Siege of Dubrovnik
military command
Chief of General Staff HV
Chief of Staff of 5th Army District YPA
Commander of Southern Front HV
Political Commissar of 32nd Division
Political Commissar of Brigade

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External resources

  1. http://www.icty.org/x/cases/bobetko/ind/en/bob-ii020826-e.pdf