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| serviceyears = 1941–43 | commands = Muslim People's Military Organization | battles = * World War II in Yugoslavia: * *Case White }} Dr. Ismet Popovac (died 21 August 1943) was a Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) military commander who led a Muslim Chetnik militia known as the Muslim People's Military Organization (, MNVO) in Bosnia and Herzegovina during World War II. A physician and lawyer by profession, he was a member of a cultural society known as ''Gajret'' prior to the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941. He was also the mayor of the town of Konjic prior to the invasion and was allegedly a candidate for Vladko Maček's electoral list, but was left without a job in the Yugoslav state government after the creation of the Banovina of Croatia in 1939. In 1941, Popovac joined the Chetnik movement of Draža Mihailović. As a proponent of Bosnian Muslim collaboration with the Chetniks, he suggested that the Chetniks recruit Muslims into their ranks. In October 1942, he enlisted Italian aid in fighting the Yugoslav Partisans, and later visited Prozor to discourage further bloodshed after a Chetnik massacre took the lives of 543–2,500 Muslim and Croat civilians. In early 1943 he led an attack against a Muslim village, before being killed by either the Partisans, Chetniks, or an assassin in the vicinity of the town of Trebinje later that year. ==Early life== From the Herzegovinian town of Nevesinje, Ismet Popovac was a physician and lawyer by profession. He finished medical school in Belgrade and was a vocal supporter of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during this time. Prior to the outbreak of World War II he was a member of the pro-Serb and pro-monarchy cultural society known as ''Gajret'', whose members were often persecuted by non-Serbs because of their political inclinations. Popovac was also the mayor of the Bosnian town of Konjic, and allegedly a candidate for Vladko Maček's electoral list, but was left without a job in the state government after the creation of the Banovina of Croatia in 1939. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ismet Popovac」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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