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Ante Gotovina

Croatian retired general

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 24, 2026
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Ante Gotovina is a Croatian retired lieutenant general and former French senior corporal who served in the Croatian War for Independence. He is noted for his primary role in the 1995 Operation Storm. In 2001, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indicted him on war crimes and crimes against humanity charges in connection with that operation and its aftermath. After spending four years in hiding, he was captured in the Canary Islands in December 2005. After the 2011 sentence, following an appeal Gotovina was subsequently acquitted and freed of all charges against him in a retrial in November 2012.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2001, 2005, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ante, Gotovina and Croatian can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ante Gotovina” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.