Petar Grdić Maćan
Petar Grdić Maćan was born in 1970 in the village of Saborsko, in the Lika region. His maternal grandfather, an Ustaša fighter, was killed in the Second World War. He grew up in a family with nine children. During the era of socialist Yugoslavia, the family made a living from working in agriculture and forestry. His father temporary worked in Germany. He was raised in catholic spirit. In 1990, he started working as a policeman for the Croatian Ministry of the Interior. He took part in defending Saborsko from the first attack, on August 5th, 1991, until the village’s fall on November 12th, 1991. Following the fall of Saborsko he worked as a policeman in Ogulin until 2001, when he was fired. He returned to Saborsko in 1998. He has been in treatment for Posttraumatic stress disorder for a number of years. Today he lives in Saborsko with his wife and two children. He is retired and is recognised as suffering 30% invalidity.