MILITARY PERSONNEL

Slobodan Praljak

1945 - 2017

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Slobodan Praljak (Croatian pronunciation: [slobǒdan prǎːʎak]; 2 January 1945 – 29 November 2017) was a Bosnian Croat war criminal 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. Praljak voluntarily joined the newly formed Croatian Armed Forces after the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence in 1991. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Slobodan Praljak has received more than 2,429,806 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia. Slobodan Praljak is the 211th most popular military personnel (up from 285th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (up from 16th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Military Personnel.

Slobodan Praljak was a Croatian general who was on trial for war crimes committed during the Bosnian War. He was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison, but in his final statement, he drank poison and died.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Slobodan Praljak ranks 211 out of 2,058. Before him are Henning von Tresckow, Lavr Kornilov, Yue Fei, George Armstrong Custer, Erhard Milch, and Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski. After him are Sun Ce, Andranik, Muhammad bin Qasim, Han Xin, Friedrich Olbricht, and Wilhelm Burgdorf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Slobodan Praljak ranks 36. Before him are Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Ian Gillan, Adly Mansour, Anselm Kiefer, Mia Farrow, and Lemmy. After him are Jean Nouvel, Mahmoud al-Zahar, Goldie Hawn, Jacky Ickx, Neil Young, and Jacqueline du Pré. Among people deceased in 2017, Slobodan Praljak ranks 24. Before him are Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mireille Darc, John Hurt, Hugh Hefner, Manuel Noriega, and Johnny Hallyday. After him are Simone Veil, Glen Campbell, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Mário Soares, Martin Landau, and Hans Georg Dehmelt.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slobodan Praljak ranks 12 out of 375. Before him are Ante Pavelić (1889), Goran Bregović (1950), Emir Kusturica (1954), Valerius Severus (300), Tvrtko I of Bosnia (1338), and Lala Mustafa Pasha (1500). After him are Vladimir Prelog (1906), Zoran Đinđić (1952), Biljana Plavšić (1930), Vahid Halilhodžić (1952), Miroslav Blažević (1935), and Vukašin of Serbia (1320).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among military personnels born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slobodan Praljak ranks 2. Before him are Ratko Mladić (1942). After him are David Elazar (1925), Vjekoslav Luburić (1914), Husein Gradaščević (1802), Zdravko Tolimir (1948), Rasim Delić (1949), Blagoje Adžić (1932), Stanislav Galić (1943), Atif Dudaković (1954), and Naser Orić (1967).

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