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Adil Zulfikarpašić
Adil Zulfikarpašić
Adil Zulfikarpašić 1st Vice President of Bosnia and Herzegovina President Born Alija Izetbegović December 23, 1921(1921-12-23) Foča, Kingdom of Yugoslavia July 21, 2008 (aged 86) Muslim Bosniak Organization (MBO) Muslim
Died Political party Religion
forces, in Sarajevo, and was tortured by them and sentenced to death. With the help of Party members, he escaped, and, by 1945, with the war ending in victory over the Axis powers, the Communists came into power and Zulfikarpašić was appointed Deputy Minister of Trade.[2] He soon became disillusioned with the Tito government and fled into exile in Zurich, Switzerland.[2] He returned to Bosnia in 1990 and joined Izetbegovic’s SDA party.[3] In 2001 he established the Bosniak Institute in Sarajevo.[4]
Books
• Adil Zulfikarpašić (1998). The Bosniak. C.Hurst & Co. Ltd. ISBN 1850653399.
Adil Zulfikarpašić or Adil-beg Zulfikarpašić,(December 23, 1921 – July 21, 2008), was a prominent politician and intellectual from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the lead up to the Bosnian War as Bosnia and Herzegovina held an independence referendum for independence Zulfikarpasic stood alongside the future Bosnian president, Alija Izetbegović. He was a member of Izetbegovic’s Party of Democratic Action (Stranka Demokratske Akcije, SDA), but soon formed another party because of differing political views, the Muslim Bosniak Organization (MBO) with Muhamed Filipovic.[1]
References
Biography
Adil was born in Foča (Cyrillic: Фоча), a town along the River Drina in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina).[2] In 1938 he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and became a Party organiser. In 1942, during World War II, he was caught by the Ustaše, the Yugoslav pro-Nazi
[1] "Mr. Milosevic’s examination-in-chief in relation to Bosnia" (HTML). ICTY. 7 February 2006. http://www.un.org/icty/ transe54/060207IT.htm. Retrieved on 2007-10-02. [2] ^ M A Sherif (2007). "Review of The Bosniak" (HTML). salaam. http://www.salaam.co.uk/books/ show_mini_review.php?book_id=220&review_id=30. Retrieved on 2007-10-02. [3] Zoran Jelicic (1994-12-12 Vreme News Digest Agency No 168). "History’s Witness: Adil Zulfikarpasic" (HTML). Vreme. http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/ serbian_digest/168/t168-11.htm. Retrieved on 2007-10-02. [4] http://books.google.com/ books?id=z_L3dTD3H6QC&pg=PA399
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