Janko Bobetko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Janko Bobetko

Croatian general

Date of Birth: 10-Jan-1919

Place of Birth: Sisak, Sisak-Moslavina County, Croatia

Date of Death: 29-Apr-2003

Profession: military personnel, politician

Nationality: Croatia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Janko Bobetko (10 January 1919 – 29 April 2003) was a Croatian general who had participated in World War II and later in the Croatian War of Independence.
He was one of the founding members of 1st Sisak Partisan Detachment, the first anti-fascist military unit during World War II in Yugoslavia.
Afterwards he had a military career in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA).
He became the Chief of the General Staff of the Croatian Army (HV) in 1992 and served until his retirement in 1995.
Bobetko had been charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia but died before he could be tried; a later verdict in another case found him culpable for crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but was reversed on appeal.