The Deputy Speaker of the Assembly of Serbia, once retired general Bozhidar Delic, has died at the age of 67. The Association of Veterans of the 549th Motorized Brigade announced that Delic died after a long illness.
He was said to have died in Moscow, Russia, where he had gone for medical treatment. Delic was elected vice-president of the Assembly of Serbia on August 2 of this year, since in the April 3 parliamentary elections, he led the NADA (Hope) list.
Bozhidar Delic was born in the village of Lugbunar in Gjakova on January 8, 1956. He was the chief of staff of the 715th Motorized Brigade of the Republika Srpska Army during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He then became the commander of the 549th Motorized Brigade during the war in Kosovo.
In the period 2002-2005, he was a member of the Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Yugoslav Army and the Army of Serbia and Montenegro.
As a defense witness, he testified before the Hague Tribunal in the trial against former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and General Vladimir Lazarevic. Bozhidar Delic was a member of the Serbian Radical Party, whose leader, Vojslav Sesel, was convicted by the Hague Tribunal.