 He was vice-chairman of the Municipal Assembly from 1991 through 17 April 1992.The Prosecution of the ICTY alleged that on 17 April 1992, Serb military forces from Bosnia and Herzegovina and elsewhere in the former Yugoslavia seized control of the town of Bosanski Šamac by force, and within a few days controlled the entire Municipality of Bosanski Šamac.The Serbs then announced that the government of the Municipality of Bosanski Šamac had been replaced by the “Serbian Municipality of Bosanski Šamac”.