Ivo Protulipac (4 June 1899 – 31 January 1946) was a Croatian lawyer and Catholic activist, assassinated in 1946, reportedly by the

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(Yugoslav secret police). He served in the defence of

Marko Hranilović Marko Hranilović (11 December 1908 – 25 September 1931) was a Croatian nationalist and Secretary of the right-wing separatist Croatian Rights Youth (, ''HPO'') in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, which had been banned in 1929. He was executed in 193 ...

in the latter's trial by 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's dictatorship, he reformed it together with Ivan Merz under the name "

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" ("Križari").Dictatorship of King Alexander and the Roman Catholic Church
, cpi.hr; accessed 11 March 2016. He was subsequently imprisoned for this act and bishops Akšamović and Bonefačić were brought in by the authorities for questioning. He was assassinated, reportedly by

agents, in

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

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