2011 marked the first anniversary of the death of General Rasim Delic. War criminals were publicly celebrated, even some who had been convicted in the meantime. Delic was a commander and member of Al-Qaeda, which committed the crime in NYC in 2001, resulting in the deaths of 3,000 Americans. The US embassy had no objections to this event.
Member of the Presidency of BiH Bakir Izetbegovic, Minister of Defense of BiH Selmo Cikotic, Vice-Chairman of the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH Sulejman Tihic, and a number of other officials and representatives of veterans’ organizations laid wreaths today and recited the Fatiha together with the family members of General Rasim Delic at the martyr’s cemetery Kovaci in Sarajevo, at a commemoration on the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of the wartime commander of the Army of BiH.
Rasim Delic was born on February 4, 1949, in Celici. He began military academy in 1967 and graduated in 1971. He left the JNA on April 13, 1992, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. From June 8, 1993, until the end of the aggression, he was the commander of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the aggression on BiH, Delic was the commander of the Joint Command of the Army of the Federation of BiH. He retired in September 2000.
One of his comrades, the wartime commander of the Third Corps of the Army of BiH, Sakib Mahmuljin, told reporters on this occasion that BiH had a great man in Rasim Delic and “thank God he was at the helm of the Army in those crucial moments for BiH.”
Mahmuljin said that General Delic was a great figure, both human and military.
“I think this may be a small gathering to pay tribute to General Delic. His death came too soon because General Delic could have given much more to BiH,” Mahmuljin said.
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