Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.20901/an.12.09
The political activites of Ante Paradžik
Velimir Veselinović
; Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author, on the basis of archive materials, press and literature reconstruct the life and political activity of politician Party Ante Paradžik. During the Croatian Spring Paradžik was elected president of the Union of Croatian students who gathered representatives of all Croatian university centers. As one of the leaders of the student movement of 1971, he was sentenced to three years in prison, which he fully served. With the establishment of the multiparty system in Croatia, Paradžik was a reformer and vice president of the Croatian Party of Right, and the main political goal of the party was an independent state of Croatia. The outbreak of the aggression against Croatia, Paradžik together with Dobroslav Paraga organized volunteer party militiamen called Croatian Defence Forces. He was also vice president of the Croatian Democratic Club of Central Europe and the Secretary General of the Croatian Association of Political Prisoners. He was killed in 1991 under unclear circumstances by members of the Croatian police.
Keywords
Ante Paradžik; Croatian Spring; Croatian Party of Right; Croatian Defence Forces; contemporary Croatian political history
Hrčak ID:
160904
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2016.
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