Mitja Ribičič
Mitja Ribičič | |
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President of the Presidency of the LCY Central Committee | |
In office 29 June 1982 – 30 June 1983 | |
President | Petar Stambolić Mika Špiljak |
Prime Minister | Milka Planinc |
Preceded by | Dušan Dragosavac |
Succeeded by | Dragoslav Marković |
22nd Prime Minister of Yugoslavia President of the Federal Executive Council | |
In office 18 May 1969 – 30 July 1971 | |
President | Josip Broz Tito |
Preceded by | Mika Špiljak |
Succeeded by | Džemal Bijedić |
Personal details | |
Born | Kingdom of Italy | May 19, 1919
Died | 28 November 2013 Ljubljana, Slovenia | (aged 94)
Nationality | Slovene |
Political party | League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1941–1990) |
Mitja Ribičič (19 May 1919 – 28 November 2013) was a
Life and career
He was born in a Slovene-speaking family in Trieste, Italy. His father was the Slovene author Josip Ribičič (born in town Baška, Isle of Krk, Croatia). His mother, Roza Ribičič, née Arrigler[2] or Arigler,[3] was a teacher in Slovene schools in Trieste, and an editor and public figure. She was the niece of the poet Anton Medved.
In 1925 the family moved to
In May 1942 he joined the
After his return in early 1945, he served as a high-ranking official of the
Between 1957 and 1963 he was a member of the Slovenian government, and then a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovenia. In 1966 he rose to the leadership of the
Between 1974 and 1982 he was president of the
Accusations of human rights violations
Several victims of Communist political persecution accused him of brutal treatment during the time when he was an official with the secret police, including Angela Vode[5] and Ljubo Sirc.[6] In 1970, when Ribičič visited Great Britain as the head of the Yugoslav Government, Sirc, a British citizen, launched a public protest, disclosing the mistreatment suffered at the hands of Ribičič in 1946.[7]
In May 2005, the
Another indictment, based on the presumed newly discovered evidence, was lodged against Ribičič at the Slovenian Prosecutor's Office due to suspected genocide and war crime by the freelance journalist and investigator of post-war killings Roman Leljak in October 2013, but the Prosecutor's Office dismissed it in December 2013 due to Ribičič's death.[12][13]
References
- ^ "Ribičič, Mitja (1919–2013)" [Ribičič, Mitja (1919–2013)] (in Slovenian). Slovenska biografija of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Archived from the original on 23 May 2023. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
- ^ "Imenovanja in napredovanja." 1925. Učiteljski tovariš 65(12) (26 March): 3. (in Slovene)
- ^ "Goriške vesti." 1913. Učiteljski tovariš 53(42) (17 October): 3 (in Slovene)
- ^ Žale cemetery grave listings Archived 2013-12-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Angela Vode, Skriti spomin (Ljubljana: Nova revija, 2006).
- ^ Ljubo Sirc, Between Hitler and Tito: Nazi Occupation and Communist Oppression (London: Andre Deutsch, 1989)
- ^ "Plus".
- ^ Post-war Killings - Enter the Bloody History Archived 2010-06-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Preiskava v zadevi Ribičič" [Investigation in the Ribičič case]. Delo.si (in Slovenian). 24 April 2006.
- ISBN 978-80-87211-51-9. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
- ^ "Sodišče zavrnilo Polakovo Pritožbo" [The Court Rejects Polak's Appeal] (in Slovenian). MMC RTV Slovenia. 23 August 2006.
- ^ "Mitja Ribičič Indicted Again". Dnevnik.si. 5 October 2013.
- ^ "The Accusation of Mitja Ribičič Regarding Suspected Genocide and War Crime Dropped". Dnevnik. 16 December 2013.