Fikret Abdić
Bosnian war criminal, businessman and politician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fikret Abdić (born 29 September 1939), also known as Babo, is a Bosnian politician and businessman who first rose to prominence in the 1980s for his role in turning the Velika Kladuša-based agriculture company Agrokomerc into one of the biggest conglomerates in SFR Yugoslavia. He won the popular vote in the Bosnian presidential elections of 1990.[1]
Fikret Abdić | |
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Mayor of Velika Kladuša | |
Assumed office 8 November 2016 | |
Preceded by | Edin Behrić |
President of the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia | |
In office 27 September 1993 – 7 August 1995 | |
Prime Minister | Zlatko Jušić |
Preceded by | Post established |
Succeeded by | Post abolished |
1st Bosniak Member of the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
In office 20 December 1990 – 20 October 1993 Serving with Alija Izetbegović | |
Preceded by | Post established |
Succeeded by | Nijaz Duraković |
Personal details | |
Born | (1939-09-29) 29 September 1939 (age 84) Velika Kladuša, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
Political party | SKJ (1958–1990) SDA (1990–1993) DNZ (1993–2013) LS BiH (2013–present) |
Children | 4, including Elvira |
Profession | Economist Businessman |
Nickname | Babo |
In the early 1990s, during the Bosnian War, Abdić declared his opposition to the official Bosnian government, and established the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia, a small and short-lived province in the northwestern corner of Bosnia and Herzegovina composed of the town of Velika Kladuša and nearby villages.
The mini-state existed between 1993 and 1995 and was allied with the Army of Republika Srpska.[2][3] In 2002, he was convicted on charges of war crimes against Bosniaks loyal to the Bosnian government by a court in Croatia and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment,[4] which was later reduced on appeal to 15 years by the Supreme Court of Croatia.
On 9 March 2012, he was released after having served two thirds of his reduced sentence.[5] He was imprisoned again in June 2020 on suspicion of abuse of his office as Mayor.[6]