{"id":11861,"date":"2023-05-16T19:18:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T18:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/partizan\/karlo-v-batko-narodni-heroj\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T17:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T17:41:54","slug":"karlo-v-batko-narodni-heroj","status":"publish","type":"partizan","link":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/partizan\/karlo-v-batko-narodni-heroj\/","title":{"rendered":"Karlo V. BATKO, national hero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

KARLO BATKO, son of VALENTIN, born on May 17, 1907, in Sarajevo, lived in Mostar since 1914. A locksmith, member of the League of Communist Youth (SKOJ) since 1922 and Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) since 1928, football player for FC “Vele\u017e”. As a young locksmith worker, he joined the labor movement in 1925, and in 1928, he became a member of the then-illegal Communist Party of Yugoslavia. After the imposition of the January 6th dictatorship in 1929, he was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison by the State Protection Court for his party activities, which he served in Sremska Mitrovica. After his release in 1931, he returned to Mostar and dedicated himself fully to party work. He was a member of the City Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Mostar in 1932 and 1936, a member of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Herzegovina in 1937 and 1940, and a member of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1938. He actively worked on the establishment and strengthening of party organizations in the Mostar area. In 1940, he was one of the organizers of the miners’ strike. He was arrested and persecuted several times. After the April War and the occupation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, he actively worked on organizing the uprising, becoming a partisan fighter. He joined the Battalion in August 1941 in the Nevesinje region and later in the Bile\u0107a region, participating in battles at Divin, Fatnica, and Plana. He spent some time in the Stolac region but returned to Mostar and, according to the task, went north as the secretary of the District Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for the Kalinovik-Fo\u010da area. He served as the political commissar of a company and a battalion in the Detachment. Later, in May-June 1942, during the Third Enemy Offensive, the fighters of the Kalinovac Partisan Detachment joined the newly formed Tenth Hercegovina Assault Brigade, where he served as the political commissar of a company in the Fifth Battalion. He died from an aerial bomb near Konjic on March 3, 1943, along with Commander Rade \u0160panac. By the decree of the Presidium of the People’s Assembly of the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia on July 5, 1951, he was proclaimed a People’s Hero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was described as a “prominent communist from Mostar, an older comrade, and probably one of the best communists that this city had, (\u2026) who, through his personal example, educated the proletarians and communists of Mostar. He was a wonderful person and an excellent comrade who went through many units, instilling revolutionary consciousness in our youth in the struggle for freedom.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KARLO BATKO, son of VALENTIN, born on May 17, 1907, in Sarajevo, lived in Mostar since 1914. A locksmith, member of the League of Communist Youth (SKOJ) since 1922 and Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) since 1928, football player for FC “Vele\u017e”. As a young locksmith worker, he joined the labor movement in 1925, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9889,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[305,315,316,306,353],"tags":[356,317,330,312],"prezime":[343],"class_list":["post-11861","partizan","type-partizan","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-35-g-en","category-poginuli-1943-en","category-poginuli-u-bih-en","category-velez-en","category-narodni-heroji-en","tag-hrvati-en","tag-bataljon-en","tag-foto-en","tag-stari-komunisti-en","prezime-b-en","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"ptb_metabox":{"ptb_partizan_izvori":"

\u0106emalovi\u0107, Enver (1986): Mostarski bataljon<\/a>, Mostar; Konjhod\u017ei\u0107, Mahmud (1981): \u201cMostarke\u201d<\/a>: fragmenti o revolucionarnoj djelatnosti i patriotskoj opredjeljenosti \u017eena Mostara, o njihovoj borbi za slobodu i socijalizam, Op\u0161tinski odbor SUBNOR-a Mostar; grupa autora (1961): Hercegovina u NOB 1. dio<\/a>, Beograd, Vojno delo; grupa autora (1986): Hercegovina u NOB\u00a0 2. dio<\/a>, Beograd ; \u0433\u0440\u0443\u043f\u0430 \u0430\u0443\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0430 (1986): \u0425\u0435\u0440\u0446\u0435\u0433\u043e\u0432\u0438\u043d\u0430 \u0443 \u041d\u041e\u0411<\/a>, \u0411\u0435\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u0434 ; Seferovi\u0107, Mensur (1981): \u201eIsto\u010dno i zapadno od Neretve<\/a>\u201c, \u201eNarodna armija\u201c, Beograd; Seferovi\u0107, Mensur (1957): \u201eTajna partijske \u0107elije<\/a>\u201c, Sarajevo; http:\/\/rsdvelezmostar.blogspot.com\/p\/fk-velez.html<\/a> ; grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945;\u00a0https:\/\/www.sistory.si\/cdn\/publikacije\/40001-41000\/40291\/Sluzbeni_vijesnik_1951-10-01_19.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/aesthetischepraxis.de\/Texte_English\/Treasures_of_Socialism.pdf<\/a>;\u00a0 https:\/\/sr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%BE<\/a> Photo of the memorial plaque:<\/em> S. Demirovi\u0107,\u00a0 https:\/\/sr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%BE ; <\/a>Narodni heroji Jugoslavije A-M, Institut za savremenu istoriju, Partizanska knjiga, Ljubljana, Narodna knjiga, Beograd, Pobjeda, Titograd, 1982.<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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According to the records of the organization SUBNOR Mostar, every third citizen was an activist of the National Liberation War, 670 fighters were killed, 1517 were victims of fascist terror, and 206 were civilian war victims. D\u017eemil \u0160arac, article \"Sa Mostarcima\" (\"With the People from Mostar\"), Hercegovina No. 9, p. 221.\r\n\r\n\"And we were all young. Those of us who were 17, 18 years old, some seemed old even though they were not older than 25. The ones over 30 were rare. There were girls and boys with different characteristics and temperaments, robust and calm, talkative and silent, recklessly brave and rational, ordinary and above-average, semi-literate and university-educated, workers and highly skilled craftsmen, high school students and university students, skilled singers and those who couldn't carry a tune, jokers and serious-minded individuals. From all our nations and religions: Muslims, Croats, Serbs, Jews, Orthodox Christians, Catholics, Muslims, Jews, atheists, and semi-atheists. Some were from straight from Mostar and others from the surrounding locations, from Konjic and outside Konjic.\" (Hercegovina Magazine No. 7, p. 238)\r\n\r\nGroups of new fighters arrived from Mostar every 10-15 days, and the Unit quickly grew into a solid military force. The guides for the groups from Mostar were Mehmed Arap, Vasa Maslo, Serif Buri\u0107, Husa Orman, Vojo Ivani\u0161evi\u0107, and Pero Krajina, who were among the bravest and most resourceful fighters. The groups regularly brought not only weapons but also medical supplies, sugar for the hospital, writing materials, large quantities of paper, books taken from the National Library (which formed the library at Borci), and other supplies for the needs of the Unit. 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They were frequently arrested for their activism, with the largest arrests occurring in 1929, 1932, and 1940.\r\nA significant number of old communists were arrested in 1940 and sent to forced labor camps, preventing them from directly participating in the People's Liberation War. The arrests occurred when the authorities closed down the Workers' Hall and banned the activities of FC \"Vele\u017e,\" considering it a centre for progressive ideas. In response, the working class of Mostar organized a general strike involving around 2000 workers from all companies and craft workshops. For their activity they were tried and convicted and sent to the Lepoglava camp, among them: Im\u0161ir Gigi\u0107, Nikola Abramovi\u0107-Bjelica, Mustafa Bjelavac, Rade Bitanga, Mustafa Alajbegovi\u0107, Smajo Brki\u0107, Hasan Kre\u0161o, Slavko Bala\u0107, Luka Kne\u017ei\u0107, and Salko Feji\u0107 (first group), and later Mustafa Humo, Velija Hajdur, Vasilije \u0160o\u0161i\u0107, Mile \u0106e\u0107ez, Ljubo Ajvaz, Rade Majstorovi\u0107, and Rudolf Hrozni\u010dek. Only four of them returned from the camps: Salko Feji\u0107, Smajo Brki\u0107, Mustafa Alajbegovi\u0107, and Luka Kne\u017ei\u0107. The remaining communists were in the prison of Lepoglava when the war broke out and were soon executed after the Ustasha came to power. 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