Tomislav Dretar

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Tomislav Dretar in 1992

Tomislav Dretar (born 2 March 1945) is a Croatian,

Bosnian, French and Belgian poet, writer, critic, and translator, as well as an academic, journalist, editor, political leader and president of Bihać's Croatian Defence Council during the Bosnian War
. He is also known by the French alias Thomas Dretart.

Origins

Dretar was born in

Education

Tomislav finished the Pedagogic Faculty at the

Political career

In the very beginning of democratic changes in the former Social Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (

SFRY), although being a Marxist educated intellectual he relinquishes his association with the Yugoslav Communist Alliance (KPJ) because of its betrayal of the people. He establishes the Bosnian Democratic Party, the first anticommunist party in Bosnia which in its Program declared itself as standing for the establishment of Bosnian-Herzegovina state independence, for its own army and police in a loose confederation.[1]

Military career

Bosnian War

area

When the war in

Fifth Bihać Corps as an autonomous Croatian military component. Under his command the Croatian HVO units were a component of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1]

He openly opposed

Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina
named the "502 Croatian-Muslim Bihać Brigade", he organized the rescue of two piston aircraft of type Kurir, which were of great benefit during the war for supplying military and other necessary materials. He managed the organization of the creation of an Air Force and the accomplishment of the first flights on the Zagreb-Bihać line, at night, in secrecy.

Tomislav Dretar

Retirement

Because of his conflict with the advocates of the partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Franjo Tuđman's yes-men, he abandoned the holding of all political and military posts and leaves, with the aid of the EEC watchgroup into exile in Belgium, where he lives today, in the conviction that Tuđman worked on the conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina, that he is guilty for the Croatian-Bosnian war, that he robbed Croatia and has divided her property among his yes-men, and also that he is the inspirer, and thereby also the evil doer of the murders of HOS generals Blaž Kraljević and Ante Paradžik. That he had secret lines of command and that he worked in agreement with Slobodan Milošević and his servant Alija Izetbegović who betrayed Bosnia and Herzegovina, and with these two men planned and carried out the plan of tearing up Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1]

After arrival in exile in

Qur'an into Croatian in the history of Croatian contacts with Islam. He published over ten books of translations of French writers, and three of his own books in the French language.[1]

Bibliography

Autheur des anthologies

Awards

  • "Slovo Gorčina" Bosnia and Herzegovina Awards for first book of poetry in 1976.

Memberships

  • Hrvatsko Društvo Književnika Herzegovina-Bosna. / demissioned
  • Društvo pisaca BiH / demissioned

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Bajlo, Ivan. "Tomislav Dretar". Zagreb, Croatia: Vojska.net. Retrieved December 25, 2010.[self-published source]
  2. ^ "meo-editions-sublimisme-balkanique-croatie". www.meo-edition.eu. Retrieved January 24, 2022.

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