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<ref>"[http://www.index.hr/clanak.aspx?id=348955 Umro bivši hrvatski i jugoslavenski čelnik Mika Špiljak]" {{hr icon}}</ref> He was [[cremated]] in Zagreb.<ref>[http://www.sisak.info/?p=6180 Umro Mika Špiljak] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609125011/http://www.sisak.info/?p=6180 |date=2011-06-09 }}</ref> |
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In the 2000s (decade), German courts linked Špiljak to the assassination of Croatian emigrant [[Stjepan Đureković]] in 1983.<ref>[http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/Svijet/tabid/67/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/76545/Default.aspx U Njemačkoj uhićen bivši jugoslavenski agent zbog ubojstva Stjepana Đurekovića], [[Slobodna Dalmacija]]</ref> |
In the 2000s (decade), German courts linked Špiljak to the assassination of Croatian emigrant [[Stjepan Đureković]] in 1983.<ref>[http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/Svijet/tabid/67/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/76545/Default.aspx U Njemačkoj uhićen bivši jugoslavenski agent zbog ubojstva Stjepana Đurekovića], [[Slobodna Dalmacija]]</ref> |
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Mika Špiljak | |
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Mayor of Zagreb | |
In office 1945–1949 | |
Preceded by | Eugen Starešinić |
Succeeded by | Milivoj Rukavina |
Personal details | |
Born | Odra Sisačka (part of Sisak), Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary | 28 November 1916
Died | 18 May 2007 Zagreb, Croatia | (aged 90)
Nationality | Croatian |
Political party | League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ) |
Mika Špiljak (Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [mîka ʃpîʎak] or [-ʃpîʎaːk]; 28 November 1916 – 18 May 2007) was a Croatian politician in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
He was born in
From 1945 to 1949, he was the mayor of Zagreb.
In 1963, Špiljak was appointed the Chairman of the Executive Council of Croatia and served until his 1967 appointment as the President of the Federal Executive Council, Yugoslavia's
Špiljak then served as Chairman of the Collective Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1983 until 1984. He was subsequently appointed as the Secretary of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Croatia from 1984 until 1986.
He died in 2007 at the age of 90.
In the 2000s (decade), German courts linked Špiljak to the assassination of Croatian emigrant Stjepan Đureković in 1983.[3]
After the hearings in Germany, all the links connecting him to the assassination were dropped.