Stjepan Šiber
Stjepan Šiber (20 June 1938, Gradačac - 25 August 2016, Sarajevo) was a war time general of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. After finishing high school in Gradacac, he went to Ljubljana, where he finished schooling at the military academy. Afterward, he became an officer in the Yugoslav People's Army. By 1992, he had become a Lieutenant Colonel. In 2000, he was elected to the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1]
Bosnian War
In April 1992, he was accepted into a seat in the Presidency of Bosnia and replaced the commanding general of the army.[2] Then, in 1993, he was promoted to Brigadier General and obtained a seat in the embassy of Bosnia in Switzerland.
Postwar
He is a member of the Republicans Party BIH, together with Stjepan Kljuić, a fellow war member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
References
- ^ Bose, Sumantra (2002). Bosnia after Dayton: nationalist partition and international intervention. Oxford University Press US. p. 229. Retrieved January 1, 2011.
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(help) - ^ Kohlmann, Evan (2004). Al-Qaida's jihad in Europe: the Afghan-Bosnian network. Berg Publishers. p. 90. Retrieved 1 January 2011.
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