page_title: Miro Barešić
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Miro Barešić / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Hrvatski: Spomenik Miri Barešiću
context_page_description: Miro Barešić was a Yugoslav-Croatian émigré who was imprisoned on terrorism charges and convicted in the 1971 murder of a Yugoslav diplomat, Vladimir Rolović. He later served as a soldier in Paraguay and in the Croatian National Guard in 1991.
  In 1969, Barešić was sentenced to six months in prison in Yugoslavia for avoiding military service, after which he left the country and joined the Croatian National Resistance movement. In 1971, he was convicted of the murder of Vladimir Rolović, Yugoslav ambassador to Sweden and former commander of the Goli Otok prison. He was released in 1972 as part of the conditions and demands by Croatian hijackers of a Swedish domestic flight. For several years, he lived in the United States and then Paraguay under a false identity. In 1980, he was extradited to Sweden and served the remaining seven years of his original sentence for the Rolović murder. He was released in 1987 and four years later, when the Croatian War of Independence began, he joined the Croatian National Guard. He was killed in action in July 1991.
context_section_description: On 31 July 2016, a statue of Barešić was erected in the village of Drage near Pakoštane. Ministers Zlatko Hasanbegović and Tomo Medved, several members of the Parliament from HDZ, HSP AS and MOST, general Ante Gotovina, bishop Mile Bogović and many other political leaders were present at the unveiling of the monument. This event provoked a sharp reaction from the Governments of Serbia and Montenegro. Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs said that the monument to Barešić "reminds of the rising of fascism and Ustašism in Croatia." On 7 August 2016, unknown persons spray-painted hand-part of the monument in red.
caption: Statue of Miro Barešić in Drage, Croatia
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