Ante Paradžik
| Ante Paradžik | |
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| Vice-president of the Croatian Party of Rights |
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In office 25 February 1990 – 21 September 1991 |
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| President | Dobroslav Paraga |
| Leader of War Command of Croatian Defence Forces |
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In office 25 June 1991 – 21 September 1991 |
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10 February 1943 Ljubuški, Independent State of Croatia |
| Died | 21 September 1991 (aged 48) Zagreb, Croatia |
| Political party | Croatian Party of Rights |
Ante Paradžik (10 February 1943 – 21 September 1991) was a Croatian right-wing politician, lawyer and rhetorician. Paradžik was one of the founders of the Croatian Party of Rights.
Paradžik was married with three children. His best man was Dražen Budiša, Croatian liberal politician and participant in Croatian Spring. Paradžik studied social rights and worked pro bono, and he also advocated social justice. For 19 years he was without passport and deprived of human rights, after he participated in Croatian Spring in 1971. During the Croatian Spring he was president of Union of Students of Croatia. After Croatian Spring ended, he was imprisoned, and released after collapse of Socialist Republic of Croatia in 1990.
Paradžik was one of the restorers of Croatian Party of Rights on 25 February 1990. He was also elected vice-president of the party and leader of War Command of Croatian Defence Forces (HOS).
Ante Paradžik was very dangerous to the government of Franjo Tuđman as the leader of paramilitary Croatian Defence Forces, opposing every compromise with Serbian representatives in the conflict. He advocated Croatian statehood and independence, uniting what he saw as Croatian historical and ethnic lands: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Syrmia.
At the founding meeting of Croatian Defense Forces, Dobroslav Paraga explained that Croatian Party of Rights organized armed volunteer detachments whose fighters had already been fighting in the first line of fire in critical areas of Croatia. Paradžik accused the Croatian government of dividing Croatian lands in negotiations with Slobodan Milošević and added that their party (Croatian Party of Rights) would not recognize any partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina. At a meeting of leaders of Croatian Party of Rights with officials from Albania and Bulgaria, they adopted a charter about creation of an anti-hegemony coalition of movements and parties of Albanians, Bulgarians and Croats, with the goal to push Serbia within its 1912 borders.
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