Mehdin Hodžić

Mehdin Hodžić was born in Tuzla on October 15, 1957, in the family of father Selmo and mother Hurija. He spent his childhood in the Tuzla settlement Šićki Brod. After completing primary and secondary education in his native region, he enrolled in the Faculty of Sports in Sarajevo. In the period before the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he worked as a policeman in Split.

With the start of the war in Croatia, he left Croatia and came to Bosnia and Herzegovina at the end of 1991. During that period, he joined the Patriotic League and organized defense in northeastern Bosnia. On April 25, 1992, in the free part of the municipality of Zvornik, in Sapna, he assumed the duties of the commander of the TG Territorial Defense of Zvornik.^[1] Together with another recipient of the Order of Heroes of the Liberation War, Hajrudin Mešić, he organizes the defense of the Zvornik area. He died on May 10, 1992, in a battle near the village of Zaseok, near Sapna.