Safet Hadžić

Safet Hadžić (August 28, 1952 – April 18, 1992) was a Bosnian politician, president of the Crisis Staff of the Sarajevo region and organizer of the resistance during the Bosnian War. He was killed in action during the seizure of weapons at the Pretis weapons factory in Vogošća. He was posthumously awarded the rank of brigadier general. He also received war awards, the Order of the Golden Lily in 1992 and the highest military decoration, the Order of the Hero of the Liberation War in 1994. He was one of the founders of the Party of Democratic Action of Sarajevo, the first president of the SDA of Novi Grad, and one of the founders of the SDA Rudo.

Biography Safet Hadžić was born in Strgačina near Rudo. Hadžić was 20 years old when his father died. Due to the poor economic situation in his hometown, he moved to Sarajevo in the 1970s, where he got a job at the Sarajevo Waterworks. He lived in Švrakino Selo. He had three children with his wife Džemila: Nezir, Almira, and Amila. Hadžić opposed the one-party system of SFR Yugoslavia because of the legal provisions on religion.

In the 1983 Sarajevo Process, where Muslim intellectuals were arrested and detained for publishing the Islamic Declaration, among whom was the future first president of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alija Izetbegović, Safet Hadžić organized the collection of funds to support the families of those arrested. Safet Hadžić was buried in the martyr's cemetery "Kovači" in Sarajevo.