Stjepan Šiber (20 August 1938,

Gradačac Gradačac ( sr-cyrl, Градачац, ) is a city located in the Tuzla Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in the northeastern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, roughly south of ...

– 25 August 2016,

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) was a wartime general of the

Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( bs, Armija Republike Bosne i Hercegovine or ARBiH), often referred to as Bosnian Army, was the military force of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was established by the government of ...

. After finishing high school in Gradačac, he went to

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, where he finished schooling at the military academy. Afterward, he became an officer in the

Yugoslav People's Army The Yugoslav People's Army (abbreviated as JNA/; Macedonian and sr-Cyrl-Latn, Југословенска народна армија, Jugoslovenska narodna armija; Croatian and bs, Jugoslavenska narodna armija; sl, Jugoslovanska ljudska a ...

. By 1992, he had become a

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. In 2000, he was elected to the

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Bosnian War

In April 1992, he was accepted into a seat in the Presidency of Bosnia and replaced the commanding general of the army. Then, in 1993, he was promoted to

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and obtained a seat in the embassy of Bosnia in Switzerland.

Postwar

He was a member of the Republican Party BiH, together with

Stjepan Kljuić Stjepan Kljuić (born 19 December 1939) is a Bosnian Croat former politician who was the Croat Member of the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina before and during the Bosnian War. Kljuić was also the President of the Croatian ...

, a fellow war member of the

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References

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