Mehdin Hodžić aka Kapetan Senad (October 15, 1957 – May 10, 1992) was a Bosnian military officer and a member of the

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. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Hero of the Liberation War and the

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. He was also called Kapetan Labud (''Captain Swan'') or Crni labud (''Black Swan'') while commanding the special forces

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Biography

Mehdin Hodžić was born in

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on October 15, 1957, in the family of father Selmo and mother Hurija. He spent his childhood in the Tuzla settlement Šićki Brod. After completing primary and secondary education in his native region, he enrolled in the Faculty of Sports in

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. In the period before the

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, he worked as a policeman in

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War period

With the start of the war in Croatia, he left Croatia and came to Bosnia and Herzegovina at the end of 1991. During that period, he joined the Patriotic League and organized defense in northeastern Bosnia. On April 25, 1992, in the free part of the municipality of Zvornik, in Sapna, he assumed the duties of the commander of the TG Territorial Defense of Zvornik. Together with another recipient of the Order of Heroes of the Liberation War, Hajrudin Mešić, he organizes the defense of the Zvornik area. He died on May 10, 1992, in a battle near the village of Zaseok, near Sapna.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hodžić, Mehdin 1957 births 1992 deaths Recipients of the Order of the Hero of the Liberation War Recipients of the Order of the Golden Lily Military personnel killed in the Bosnian War