Ante Gotovina

Soldier, Military Person

1955 –

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Who is Ante Gotovina?

Ante Gotovina is a Croatian retired lieutenant general and former French senior corporal who served in the Croatian War for Independence. In 2001, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicted him on a number of war crimes and crimes against humanity charges for crimes committed in 1995 during and in the aftermath of Operation Storm. After spending four years in hiding, he was captured in the Canary Islands in December 2005. In April 2011, Gotovina was found guilty on eight of the nine counts of the indictment and sentenced to 24 years of imprisonment. On 16 November 2012, he was found not guilty on all charges by the appeals panel at the ICTY, and immediately set free.

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Born
Oct 12, 1955
Tkon
Also known as
  • Andrija Grabovac
Parents
Spouses
Children
Religion
  • Catholicism
Ethnicity
  • Croats
Nationality
  • Croatia
  • France
Profession

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on July 23, 2013

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