Ivo Protulipac was a Croatian lawyer and important Catholic activist (see Croatian Catholic movement

Croatian Catholic movement

Croatian Catholic movement is the name for the gathering of organized Catholic lay initiatives and associations, who acts in the first half of the 20th century in Croatia, as a response on increasing liberalism, with a new, aggressive approach, and on the phenomena of Church and religion lost the...

), who was assassinated by Yugoslav secret police

UDBA

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 in 1946.

He served in the defence of Marko Hranilović

Marko Hranilovic

Marko Hranilović was the secretary of the separatist Croatian Rights Youth in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He is most famous for being part of an alleged show trial against several Croatian nationalists in 1931....

 in a show trial of the Royal Yugoslav government in 1930.

He was the president of the "Union of Croatian Eagles" ("Hrvatski orlovski savez"). When the association was banned by King Alexander

Alexander I of Yugoslavia

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's dictatorship, he reformed it together with Ivan Merz

Ivan Merz

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 under the name "Crusaders

Crusaders (Ustasha)

Crusaders were a Croatian anti-communist guerrilla army. Their activity's started after the capitulation of the Independent State of Croatia, which was at the time a Nazi puppet state, in May 1945, toward the end of World War II...

" ("Križari"). He was subsequently imprisoned for this act and bishops Akšamović and Bonefačić were brought in by the authorities for questioning.

He was killed by UDBA

UDBA

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 agents in Trieste in 1946. After Croatian independence, Protulipac's remains were exhumed and he was returned to Croatia and buried in Zagreb

Zagreb

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's Mirogoj cemetery

Mirogoj Cemetery

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.