Slobodan Praljak

Biography

Slobodan Praljak (2 January 1945 – 29 November 2017) was a Bosnian Croat general who served in the Croatian Army and the Croatian Defence Council, an army of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, between 1992 and 1995. Praljak was found guilty of committing violations of the laws of war, crimes against humanity and breaches of the Geneva Conventions during the Croat–Bosniak War by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 2017.

Slobodan Praljak was born on 2 January 1945 in Čapljina. His father Mirko worked for Yugoslav security agency OZNA. He attended high school in Široki Brijeg with the future Croatian Defense Minister Gojko Šušak. Praljak had three unive...