In 1969 , Barešić was sentenced to six months in prison in Yugoslavia for avoiding military service , after which he left the country and joined the Croatian National Resistance movement . In 1971 , he was convicted of the murder of Vladimir Rolović , Yugoslav ambassador to Sweden and former commander of the Goli Otok prison . He was released in 1972 as part of the conditions and demands by Croatian hijackers of a Swedish domestic flight . For several years , he lived in the United States and then Paraguay under a false identity . In 1980 , he was extradited to Sweden and served the remaining seven years of his original sentence for the Rolović murder . He was released in 1987 and four years later , when the Croatian War of Independence began , he joined the Croatian National Guard . He was killed in action in July 1991
of the murder
1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting
Miro Barešić