Milan Tepšić was born in 1930, in Gvozd. His family comes from the area of Kordun. In July 1941 his father was taken away under the pretext of going to be baptised, and was then killed by Ustaše in the massacre in the church in Glina. Following that, he took refuge with his mother and his three siblings. During the next few years they found shelter on Petrova Gora, with other refugees. After the War, he finished high school in Karlovac. He was a member of the Party from 1951 to 1962, when he left for France, in search of work. He returned from France at the end of the 1970s and he started working for Hidroelektra. He spent the duration of the war in the 1990s on the territory of SAO Krajina [Serbian Autonomous Oblast of Krajina]. After Operation Storm he did not leave Croatia. He was captured in Glina by the Croatian Army. Together with some other inhabitants of the town, he was transferred to Ivan-Grad. He was soon released; he had been away from his home for only 12 or 13 days. During that period he was not maltreated, nor was he a witness to any maltreatment.