Adil Zulfikarpašić

Adil Zulfikarpašić
1st Vice President of Bosnia and Herzegovina
President	Alija Izetbegović
Personal details
Born	23 December 1921(1921-12-23) Foča, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died	21 July 2008(2008-07-21) (aged 86) Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nationality	Bosniak
Political party	Muslim Bosniak Organization (MBO)
Religion	Sunni Islam

Adil Zulfikarpašić (23 December 1921 – 21 July 2008) was a prominent Bosniak politician and intellectual.

Biography

Adil Zulfikarpašić was born in Foča, a town along the River Drina in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina).^[1]

In 1938 he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and became a Party organizer. In 1942, during World War II, he was caught by the Ustaše (the Croatian pro-Nazi forces) in Sarajevo and was tortured by them and sentenced to death. With the help of Yugoslav Partisans he escaped and in 1945 with the war ending in victory over the Axis powers, the Communists came into power and Zulfikarpašić was appointed Deputy Minister of Trade.^[1] He soon became disillusioned with the Josip Broz Tito's government and fled into exile in Zurich, Switzerland.^[1]

He returned to Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the lead up to the Bosnian War, as Bosnia and Herzegovina held an independence referendum for independence, Zulfikarpašić stood alongside the future Bosnian president, Alija Izetbegović.^[2] He was a member of Izetbegovic's Party of Democratic Action, but soon formed another party because of differing political views, the Muslim Bosniak Organization with Muhamed Filipović.^[3]

In 2001 he established the Bosniak Institute in Sarajevo.^[4] In 2002 he was elected an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[5]

Books

• Adil Zulfikarpašić (1998). The Bosniak. C.Hurst & Co. Ltd. ISBN 1-85065-339-9. 

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} M A Sherif (2007). "Review of The Bosniak". salaam. http://www.salaam.co.uk/books/show_mini_review.php?book_id=220&review_id=30. Retrieved 2007-10-02. 
2. ^ Zoran Jelicic (1994-12-12 Vreme News Digest Agency No 168). "History's Witness: Adil Zulfikarpasic". Vreme. http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/serbian_digest/168/t168-11.htm. Retrieved 2007-10-02. 
3. ^ "Mr. Milosevic's examination-in-chief in relation to Bosnia". ICTY. 7 February 2006. Archived from the original on 2007-08-10. http://web.archive.org/web/20070810130248/http://www.un.org/icty/transe54/060207IT.htm. Retrieved 2007-10-02. 
4. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=z_L3dTD3H6QC&pg=PA399
5. ^ http://www.anubih.ba/index.php?option=content&lang=eng&Theme=honorary&Level=2&ItemID=6

Persondata
Name	Zulfikarpasic, Adil
Alternative names
Short description	Vice President of Bosnia
Date of birth	1921-12-23
Place of birth	Foča, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Date of death	2008-07-21
Place of death	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina