Dario Kordić
| Dario Kordić | |
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| Commander of the Croatian Defence Council | |
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In office 1992–1994 |
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| Vice president of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia | |
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In office 18 November 1991 – 14 August 1996 |
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| Preceded by | Function established |
| Succeeded by | Function abolished |
| 5th President of HDZ BiH | |
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In office 9 June 1994 – 2 December 1995 |
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| Preceded by | Mate Boban |
| Succeeded by | Božo Rajić |
| Personal details | |
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14 December 1960 Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
| Political party | Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Spouse(s) | Venera Kordić |
| Alma mater | University of Sarajevo |
Dario Kordić (born 14 December 1960) is a Bosnian Croat former politician from HDZ BiH, military commander of the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) between 1992 and 1994, vice president of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, a self-proclaimed Croat territory in Bosnia and Herzegovina and convicted war criminal. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison in February 2001 for war crimes committed against the Bosniak population during the 1992–94 Bosniak-Croat war, and was released in June 2014 after having served two thirds of his sentence.
Kordić was born on 14 December 1960 in Sarajevo, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia). He studied political science at the University of Sarajevo and then went into journalism working for the "Vatrostalac" newspaper. Although born in Sarajevo, he lived mostly in Busovača. He has three children, a son and two daughters.
On 12 November 1991, Mate Boban and Kordić held the Joint Meeting of the Crisis Staffs of Herzegovina and Travnik Regional Communities. The two communities decided that Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina should institute a policy to bring about "our age-old dream, a common Croatian State" and should call for a proclamation of a Croatian banovina in Bosnia and Herzegovina as the "initial phase leading towards the final solution of the Croatian question and the creation of sovereign Croatia within its ethnic and historical borders".
On 27 December 1991 there was a meeting in Zagreb, chaired by President Franjo Tuđman, of the leadership of the Croatian HDZ and of the HDZ-BiH. The purpose was, first, to discuss the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the differences of opinion on this topic in the HDZ-BiH party; secondly, to formulate an overall Croatian political strategy. Stjepan Kljuić set out his position in favour of the Croats remaining within Bosnia and Herzegovina but Boban said that, should Bosnia and Herzegovina disintegrate, the HZ H-B would be proclaimed as independent Croatian territory “which will accede to the State of Croatia but only at such time as the Croatian leadership [...] should decide”. Kordić said the Croatian spirit in the HZ H-B had grown stronger in the 40 days since the declaration of the HZ H-B, the Croatian people of the Travnik region were ready to accede to the Croatian state "at all costs [...] any other option would be considered treason, save the clear demarcation of Croatian soil in the territory of Herceg Bosna".
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