Josip Boljkovac

Who is Josip Boljkovac?

Josip Boljkovac is a former Croatian politician, and was the first Minister of Internal Affairs in the Croatian Government.

During World War II, Boljkovac was Tito's partisan, he was active from the very beginning of antifascist usprising. He even met Randolph Churchill during his military mission. After the war he served with the state secret police OZNA. He was later appointed as mayor of Karlovac from 1963 to 1969.

After democratic reforms in Croatia he joined the Croatian Democratic Union and became the country's first Minister of Internal Affairs. He later left the party to join the Croatian Independent Democrats. With that party's marginalization, he joined the Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats. Boljkovac has also run on the electoral list of the Croatian Party of Pensioners and the Independent Democratic Serb Party in separate elections. In 2008, Boljkovac launched a bid to form a Josip Broz Tito Society, to celebrate the role of the former Yugoslav president.

Local police are investigating Boljkovac's role in World War II and post-war Croatia, and are considering filing charges for war crimes against him. His reply on this accusations, about killing in Yugoslav concentration camps was: Who are those witnesses? None of them from camps isn't alive.