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Jovan Divjak (; born 11 March 1937) is a retired Bosnian Army general who served during the Bosnian War (1992–95). He was the Deputy Commander of the Army's Main Staff until 1994. An ethnic Serb, he publicly declares himself a Bosnian. == Early life and military career == Divjak was born in Belgrade to parents originally from the Bosanska Krajina region of Bosnia. His father was stationed in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) in Serbia. He and his family currently reside in Sarajevo, where he moved in 1966. From 1956 to 1959 he attended the Military Academy in Belgrade. In 1964 and 1965 he attended the l'Ecole d'Etat Major in Paris. From 1969-71 he was in the Cadet Academy in Belgrade, and from 1979-81, he served in the War and Defense Planning School there. After several posts in the JNA, he was appointed Territorial Defense Chief in command of the Mostar sector from 1984 to 1989 then the Sarajevo sector from 1989 to 1991. In 1991/2 Jovan Divjak was court-marshalled by the JNA for issuing 120 pieces of light armour and 20,000 bullets to the Kiseljak Territorial Defence, and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. He avoided this sentence by leaving the JNA and joining the Territorial Defence of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the first days of war he was arrested under the charge of collaborating with the Serbian forces and was imprisoned for 27 days. In prison, Divjak was on a hunger strike for four days, but nobody paid any attention. Divjak later became the Deputy Commander of the Territorial Defense forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina and a month later he oversaw the defence of Sarajevo from a major JNA attack. Between 1993–97, General Divjak served as the Deputy Commander of the Headquarters of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, charged with cooperating with civilian institutions and organisations (administration, economy, health, and education). Divjak, as an ethnic Serb, was made a general in order to present a multi-ethnic character of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He himself commented on the issue by saying that he felt like a "flower arrangement", and said that "of course, someone has to be a flower arrangement too". He expressed that it was shameful if his service to the Army were only temporary. Indeed, he and Stjepan Šiber were the only non-Bosniaks in the Chief of Staff. Both of them were offered retirement in March 1996 by the Bosniak leader Alija Izetbegović. At the beginning of the war, out of 18 percent of Croats and 12 percent of Serbs, only one percent of both remained in the ranks of the Bosnian army personnel. Divjak complained about this to Rasim Delić, then a Chief of Staff, as well as Izetbegović, but it was explained that this was because "Bosniak soldiers didn't trust the Serb commanders." Divjak was later excluded by Delić from the decision making process in the Army. The Bosniaks in the Army had no confidence in Divjak, as he later stressed out in an interview with ''Oslobođenje''. 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「Jovan Divjak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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