Dževad Galijašević
Dževad Galijašević is a Bosnian political analyst and expert on security and terrorism.
Born in Moševac near Maglaj, Galijašević became a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in his youth.
Since 1986, there was a conflict between Moševac and the Bosnian political leadership.[1] In the election for leadership in the local community of Moševac, Dževad Galijašević and Hasan Delić had the most votes, however, the leadership in Maglaj opposed such a decision deeming that they were not morally and politically suitable, and they were thus never instated.[1] Galijašević, a Moševac community leader, spoke at a public meeting regarding human rights and liberties in BiH, seeking support in his struggle against local leaders in Maglaj.[2] He was arrested after the meeting and served seven months in prison.[2] He started a hunger strike in prison, and human rights organization demanded his pardon.[2] The Presidency of BiH pardoned him on 27 January 1989, after his mother had signed a petition asking for his release.[2] Hasan Delić was arrested in May 1989.[2]
During the Bosnian War, Galijašević joined the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and was an officer of the 3rd Corps. Bosnian minister Dragan Mektić has shown a photograph in which Galijašević reports to Alija Izetbegović and Sakib Mahmuljin in the village of Gostovići.[3] According to Galijašević, Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who made several trips to Bosnia, visited the Maglaj area as early as September 1992.[4]
In 1999, he was the Maglaj president of the Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina.[5] In 2000 he was the mayor of Maglaj municipality.[6] As mayor, he ordered for the 1,500 Bosnian mujahideen occupying Serb homes in Gornja Bocinja to be vacated, which led him to be hated by the Bosnian mujahideen.[6] The order was never carried out, however.[6] In September 2006 he had been attacked twice and was forced to relocate his family to Croatia.[6] In late November 2006 he stated that Izetbegović-ally Haris Silajdžić "was the organizer and sponsor of mujahedin coming into Bosnia".[6] In 2007, he was the head of the municipal administration of Maglaj.[4]
In 2010, his fifteen-year-old son was beaten by a 52-year-old man because of his "father working for Chetniks (Serbs)".[7]
He has stated that Bosnia and Herzegovina is the most dangerous point in Europe from the point of jihadist terrorist threat.[8]
Works
- Hrvatska kriminalna hobotnica (2012)
- Sluge tranzicije i komunizma: priča o krizi identiteta i komunističkoj diktaturi u BiH (2012)
- Era terorizma u BiH (2007)
- Moševac: što je bilo - bilo je (1989)
References
- ^ a b Nova Hrvatska. Vol. 30. Nova Hrvatska. 1988.
- ^ a b c d e Dr Neven Andjelic (2 August 2004). Bosnia-Herzegovina: The End of a Legacy. Routledge. pp. 81–82. ISBN 978-1-135-75714-4.
- ^ http://www.rtvbn.com/362511/Za-Vladu-Srpske-vaznije-700-junica-Farmalenda-nego-80-000-boraca.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ a b John R. Schindler. Unholy Terror. Zenith Imprint. pp. 123–. ISBN 978-1-61673-964-5.
- ^ Svijet. Svijet. 1999. p. 99.
a Dževad je ovdašnji predsjednik Stranke za BiH.
- ^ a b c d e Deliso 2007, p. 20.
- ^ "Pretučen sin Dževada Galijaševića".
- ^ http://www.blic.rs/vesti/republika-srpska/galijasevic-bih-je-najopasnija-tacka-u-evropi/eyq7k9n.
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Sources
- Christopher Deliso (2007). The Coming Balkan Caliphate: The Threat of Radical Islam to Europe and the West. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 20–. ISBN 978-0-275-99525-6.
External links
- "Tag: Dževad Galijašević". Blic.
- "Tag: Dževad Galijašević". Vesti online.