book “Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.”
Alija O. PILAVDŽIĆ
ALIJA PILAVDŽIĆ, son of OSMAN, born on December 4, 1899, in Opličići near Čapljina. Miner at the Coal Mine in Mostar. Activist of the National Liberation Struggle. Arrested by the Ustasha in February 1945, in Mostar, taken to Sarajevo, and killed.
After a failed assassination attempt on the notorious ustasha commander Maks Luburić in early March 1945, Luburić took over the judiciary in Sarajevo and formed his own Summary Court. This so-called Summary Court, through the verdicts of the UKP. Number 1/45 and UKP number 2/45, published in the final issue of the Ustasha newspaper “Novi list” on April 3, 1945, sentenced dozens of people to death. Early in the morning of March 28, 1945, seven days before the liberation of the city, the Ustasha publicly hanged 56 people at Marindvor, and several more were found in Luburić’s villa who could not be identified due to the mutilation of their remains. The name of Alija Pilavdžić was listed as number 4 on the notice/information board about the “shooting” punishment.
grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.
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