Ivo Protulipac

Ivo Protulipac

Ivo Protulipac was a Croatian lawyer and Catholic activist who was assassinated by Yugoslav secret police in 1946.

He served in the defence of Marko Hranilović in a show trial of the Royal Yugoslav government in 1930. [ [http://www.tomislavjonjic.iz.hr/V_9_petrinovic.html Akademikova Neuspjela Maturalna Radnja ] ]

He was president of the Association of Croatian Eagles. [ [http://www.ivanmerz.hr/international/eng/eng_bio_8.htm Association of Croatian Eagles] ] When the association was banned by King Alexander's dictatorship, he reformed it under the name "Cross". [http://www.cpi.hr/download/links/hr/7947.pdf Dictatorship of King Alexander and the Roman Catholic Church] ] He was subsequently imprisonned for this act and bishops Akšamović and Bonefačić were brought in by the authorities for questioning.

He was killed by UDBA agents in Trieste in 1946. After Croatian independence, Protulipac's remains were exhumed and he was returned to Croatia and buried in Zagreb's Mirogoj cemetery. [ [http://www.ivanmerz.hr/glasilo/1994/1994-Protulipac_u_domovini.htm Dr. Ivo Protulipac in the Homeland] ]

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