Ibrahim Pirić-Pjanić
Ibrahim Pirić-Pjanić
Ibrahim Pirić-Pjanić (born in 1896 in the village of Soko in Bosnia, died in 1977 in Munich) - commander of the Croatian-Muslim militia. Ibrahim Garda, 9th Domodian Battalion "Bosanski planinci", then 25th Croatian Domobrana battalion during World War II, immigrant activist and anti-communist columnist
After the outbreak of World War I, he broke his education and volunteered for the Austro-Hungarian Army. Served in the 2nd Bosnian Infantry Regiment, reaching the rank of non-commissioned officer. In the interwar period he lived in Bosnia belonging to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Following the attack of the German armies and the capitulation of Yugoslavia, he cooperated with the authorities of the Croatian Independent State. He organized the Croatian-Muslim militia, the so-called. Ibrahim Garda, numbering about 1 thousand. people to master the city of Gračanica and its surroundings and to defend against Serbian chets. His military formation was transformed into the 2nd battalion of the Gračanice militia Domdo. At the end of 1941 he became a military commissioner of the NDH in the district of Gračian. From 1942 he was a Colonel of Croatian Domobran. In 1943 he organized a local branch of Bosnian Muslims, who was part of the Domov regiment "Bosanski planinci" as a 9th Battalion. In April 1944, he took command of the newly formed 25th Battalion of the Croatian Army. At the end of the war, he and other Croatian refugees arrived in the Austrian area of Bleiburg. However, he did not enter the hands of Communist Yugoslav partisans, but managed to get to northern Italy and then to Syria. At the end of the 1950s he settled in Germany, where he worked in the anti-communist anti-Communist organization "United Croats". He also wrote the letter "Free Croatia". The Communist authorities of Yugoslavia assured him of an amnesty for saving a number of Jews and Serbs during the war, but preferred to stay in West Germany where he died in 1977.
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