Miro Barešić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Miro Barešić

Croatian murderer

Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1950

Place of Birth: Šibenik, Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia

Date of Death: 31-Jul-1991

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: Croatia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Miro Barešic (10 September 1950 – 31 July 1991) was a Yugoslav-Croatian émigré who was imprisoned on terrorism charges and convicted in the 1971 murder of a Yugoslav diplomat, Vladimir Rolovic.
He later served as a soldier in Paraguay and in the Croatian National Guard in 1991.In 1969, Barešic was sentenced to six months in prison in Yugoslavia for avoiding military service, after which he left the country and joined the Croatian National Resistance movement.
In 1971, he was convicted of the murder of Vladimir Rolovic, Yugoslav ambassador to Sweden and former commander of the Goli Otok prison.
He was released in 1972 as part of the conditions and demands by Croatian hijackers of a Swedish domestic flight.
For several years, he lived in the United States and then Paraguay under a false identity.
In 1980, he was extradited to Sweden and served the remaining seven years of his original sentence for the Rolovic murder.
He was released in 1987 and four years later, when the Croatian War of Independence began, he joined the Croatian National Guard.
He was killed in action in July 1991.