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Sep 29, 1939 Velika Kladuša, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina 84 years old
Bosniak Croatian war criminal, businessman and politician
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About Fikret Abdi
- Fikret Abdic (born 29 September 1939) is a Bosnian politician, 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.In the early 1990s, during the Bosnian War, Abdic 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.
- 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, 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.
