Đuro Basariček (;

Zagreb Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Sl ...

, 13 March 1884 – Belgrade, 20 June 1928) was a

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ian politician, lawyer and social activist. He was a member of the

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from its founding in 1904. He was assassinated in the National Assembly of the

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in Belgrade in 1928. Basariček was the son of Stjepan Basariček and Amalija (née Pogačnik), natives of

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. He finished elementary school, gymnasium and a law degree in

where he also received his doctorate in law in 1907. He served as a judge in

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and in Zagreb. He was active in relocating disadvantaged children from

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and

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to more fertile areas, largely in

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and

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. In 1919, Basariček began his involvement in the colonization of Slavonia from areas such Gorski kotar and Lika, and continued with this cause until his death. From the founding of the

, Basariček collaborated with its leader

Stjepan Radić Stjepan Radić (11 June 1871 – 8 August 1928) was a Croat politician and founder of the Croatian People's Peasant Party (HPSS), active in Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He is credited with galvanizing Croa ...

. Believing as Radić did that the Croats needed to embrace Pan-Slavism, Basariček learned Czech and

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. He was elected to the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes four times: in 1920, 1923, 1925 and 1927. In 1927 he addressed the assembly saying that "dark powers" were preparing a dictatorship which was "equally dangerous to the Croats and to Serbdom". On 20 June 1928, Basariček was assassinated by

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representative Puniša Račić. In the attack

Pavle Radić Pavle Radić (10 January 1880 – 20 June 1928) was a Croatian politician and member of the Croatian People's Peasant Party (HPSS). Radić was shot and killed in parliament by the Serbian radical politician Puniša Račić. This assassination f ...

was also killed and Stjepan Radić was fatally wounded. The event led to King Alexander's proclamation of a dictatorship in the Kingdom on 6 January 1929 and the renaming of the country to the ''Kingdom of Yugoslavia''.

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