On this day in 1925, Alija Izetbegović, the first President of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was born.
His political career was marked by two trials, the first in 1946, in which he was sentenced to three years in prison, and the second, known as the Sarajevo Trial, in which he and a group of Bosniak intellectuals were sentenced to 14 years in prison. In the second year after his release from prison, in May 1990, Izetbegović founded the Party of Democratic Action with a group of like-minded people.
After the elections, Izetbegović was elected President of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in that position he welcomed the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He was one of the signatories of the Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Alija Izetbegović died in 2003, and his funeral was attended by tens of thousands of citizens and numerous world delegations.
