Ilija Stanić (born 19 October 1945) is believed to have assassinated

Vjekoslav Luburić Vjekoslav Luburić (6 March 1914 – 20 April 1969) was a Croatian Ustaše official who headed the system of concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during much of World War II. Luburić also personally oversaw and spe ...

, a Croatian Ustasha General responsible for war crimes in Jasenovac concentration camp during

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. Stanić was born at Čelebići near

Konjic Konjic ( sr-Cyrl, Коњиц) is a city and municipality located in Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located in northern Herzegovina, around southwest of Sarajevo. ...

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. His father, Vinko (died 1951), was an Ustasha during

. Stanić left Yugoslavia in 1966. After living in

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and

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, he settled in

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. He worked at General Vjekoslav Luburić's press in

Carcaixent Carcaixent (, Spanish: ''Carcagente'') is a town and municipality in the province of Valencia, eastern Spain, with c. 20,000 inhabitants. Its origins go back to prehistoric Iberian and Roman times, with some remainders in its area. It is loca ...

until 20 April 1969. On that date, Luburić was assassinated and Stanić escaped.

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searched for Stanić, but never caught him. In 2003,

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journalist
Francesc Bayarri
found Stanić in

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other languages'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its a ...

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and interviewed him. Bayarri published a book on the subject, entitled ''Cita a Sarajevo'' (
Meeting in Sarajevo
'). In 2009, the ''

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'' newspaper as per '' Jutarnji list'', published an interview with Stanić where he claimed that he had killed Luburić because Luburić abandoned the

Ustaše The Ustaše (), also known by anglicised versions Ustasha or Ustashe, was a Croats, Croatian Fascism, fascist and ultranationalism, ultranationalist organization active, as one organization, between 1929 and 1945, formally known as the Ustaš ...

fascist leader Ante Pavelić.

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