Filipović was court-martialed by the Germans for his involvement, possibly at the request of the Italian army which was then occupying part of the ISC territory.

Through the direct intervention of Vjekoslav " Maks " Luburić, who then headed Section III of the ISC internal security service ( Ustaška Narodna Služba ), which was responsible for administering the puppet state's system of prison camps, Filipović was quickly released and posted to the Jasenovac complex of labour and death camps where he was at first an inmate with benefited status, who aided the Ustase, and later appointed Ustase, commanding a small transit camp nigh Jasenovac, in early 1942, He reportedly killed an inmate there for hiding a loaf of bread.

Filipović then shot dead two prisoners and told a colleague to “ finish off the rest ”.

A Jewish survivor of Jasenovac, Egon Berger, has described Filipović ’ s sadistic killing of children, while two other witnesses, Šimo Klaić and Dragutin Škrgatić: Klaić recalls that in Christmas 1942, Miroslav ordered mass and later a muster, where he killed four inmates with a knife, while forcing a Jew of Sarajevo, Alkalaj, to sing, then ordering Alkalaj to near him, stabbing him in the chest and slashing his throat.

Since then, Filipović maintained a comparably low kickboxing profile, but nevertheless scored some impressive K-1 victories, most notably against Mark Hunt in March 2002 ( unanimous decision ), Remy Bonjasky in July 2002 ( second round TKO ) and Bob Sapp in April 2003 ( first round KO ).

Filipović then participated in Pride Total Elimination 2004.

Emelianenko was then able to get the fight to the ground and land several body shots, which took a lot of gas out of Filipović.

During the bout, Filipović knocked down Al-Turk with punches within the first round, then allowed him to stand.

Since then, Filipović has hired legendary former Muay Thai champion Ivan Hippolyte and revamped his whole training team.

Bernardo ’ s other major success took place in 2000 when he won the K-1 World Grand Prix in Fukuoka, beating Jörgen Kruth, Andrew Thompson and then Mirko Filipović in the final.

On 7 October the Hungarian army defeated Jelačić ’ s reserves, and took Generals Roth and Filipović prisoner.

Filipović defeated Herring decisively, scoring a TKO victory with a left roundhouse body kick to Herring's liver at 3: 17 into the fight.

On July 1, 2006 at Pride Critical Countdown Absolute, Filipović defeated 1992 Olympic judo gold medalist Hidehiko Yoshida by technical knockout ( leg kicks ) in the first round to move on to the semi-finals.

Filipović defeated Sanchez in the first round via TKO.

Filipović defeated the 30 cm taller and 50 kg heavier opponent from Korea, Choi Hong-man, on December 31 at FieLDS Dynamite !!

Mirko Filipović defeated Pat Barry by submission due to a rear naked choke at UFC 115 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Neither fighter managed to deliver any significant damage to the other until Filipović was defeated by Mir at 4: 02 of the third round by KO due to a knee strike to the head.

Filipović was defeated by Ultimate Fighter alumni Brendan Schaub on March 19, 2011 at UFC 128: Shogun vs. Jones by way of KO at 3: 44 of the third round.

In his last fight with the UFC, Filipović was defeated by Roy Nelson at UFC 137 by TKO due to punches in round 3.

At the PRIDE Shockwave 2005 event, Hunt surprisingly defeated Mirko " Cro Cop " Filipović via a split decision, after his earlier loss to him in K-1.

He defeated Mirko " Cro-Cop " Filipović at K-1 Fight Night, on June 3, 2000, in Zurich, Switzerland.

Mir defeated Filipović via third round KO, earning the win with a knee from the clinch in a largely uneventful fight where neither fighter was able to deliver any significant offense.

A martial arts enthusiast since his youth, Filipović started his professional career in 1996 as a kickboxer, following in the footsteps of his compatriot Branko Cikatić.

Furthermore, in the literary journal Književna reč, Šešelj continued to criticize Muslim university professors ( Atif Purivatra, Hasan Sušić and Muhamed Filipović ) for having harmed his professional career.

This has often partly been to do with involvement of professional wrestling personalities, for example Mirko " Cro Cop " Filipović has appeared in the pages of Power Slam numerous times due to Japanese promoters ( especially K-1 ) pitting him against wrestlers in legitimate shoot fights.

Filipović was the League of Communists of Yugoslavia | communist candidate for the mayor of Belgrade.

* January 27 – Stjepan Filipović, a People's Hero of Yugoslavia ( d. 1942 )

Milenko Filipović, from DS ( part of the For a European Sremski Karlovci coalition ), was elected as the new mayor of the municipal parliament.

However, after purchasing Pride, Dana White felt that the Pride model was not sustainable and the organization would likely fold with many former Pride fighters such as Antônio Rodrigo " Minotauro " Nogueira, Maurício " Shogun " Rua, Dan Henderson, Mirko " Cro Cop " Filipović, Wanderlei Silva and others already being realigned under the UFC brand.

Miroslav Filipović.

After the defeat of the Croatian Ustaše regime, Filipović was convicted of war crimes by both a German military court and a Yugoslav civil court and hanged at Belgrade.

In 1941, a superior at his monastery allegedly urged Filipović to distance himself from the Ustaša, an organisation of extremist Croatian nationalists installed by the Axis Powers in April 1941 to rule in the Independent State of Croatia ( ISC ), a puppet state embracing Bosnia-Hercegovina as well as most of Croatia.

Tomislav Filipović ( later known as Tomislav Filipović-Majstorović ) was assigned to II Poglavnik Bodyguard Battalion.

Statements by two eyewitnesses and a senior German general alleged that on 7 February 1942, Filipović accompanied elements of his battalion in an operation aimed at wiping out Serbs in the settlement of Drakulić, on the northern outskirts of Banja Luka, and in two neighbouring villages, Motike and Šargovac.

Two teachers survived the school massacre: Dobrila Martinović, who subsequently suffered a nervous breakdown, and Mara Šunjić ( shown as Tunjić in some documents ) who gave evidence against Filipović at his postwar trial in Belgrade.

According to Šunjić's trial testimony Filipović not only participated in the atrocity but also incited fellow Ustaše to act with extreme cruelty.

She explained that she had no reason to be alarmed when Filipović arrived at the school because he was based at the nearby Prebićevac monastery and was often seen passing through the villages.

The teacher recalled that when Filipović and some Ustaše entered her classroom, the children looked on with curiosity but no fear.

But Filipović took a child, Vasilija Glamočanin, and " slaughtered her with a knife " in front of the class.

Similar atrocities occurred on 12 February 1942 at two more villages in the area, Piskavica and Ivanjska ( now Potkozarje ), but there is no concrete evidence that Filipović was involved in those events.

In his testimony to a Croatian state commission set up after World War II to investigate war crimes “ by the occupation forces and their collaborators ”, Filipović said he neither participated in, nor even attended, the 7 February massacres.

However, General Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, the senior German officer in the region, implicated Filipović in a report where he stated that as well as being present " during the slaughtering " the priest had attended a planning meeting prior to the massacres, along with certain other Catholic priests.

On 4 April 1942 Filipović was reportedly suspended from his chaplaincy post by the papal legate in Zagreb and jailed in Croatia.

After the war Filipović admitted that he had personally killed about 100 prisoners and had attended mass executions of many more.

After hearing from 62 Jasenovac survivors, whom it listed usually with complete addresses, the war-crimes commission in 1946 counted Filipović among 13 Ustaše who “ stood out ” for their brutality and direct involvement in the killing.

It reported that even the cruelty of Ljubo Miloš, notorious for slashing prisoners to death in a mock clinic, was “ surpassed in sadism ” by Filipović.

" The commission cited one witness, Tomo Krkac, who had described seeing Filipović “ very often ” shooting prisoners during so-called public executions and forcing prisoners to kill other prisoners with sledgehammers.

In one of the first published memoirs about life and death in the Jasenovac complex, a Croatian medical doctor and academic, Dr. Nikola Nikolić, who had been imprisoned in Camp III, described his first meeting with Filipović: “ His voice had an almost feminine quality which was at odds with his physical stature and coarse face .” Nikolić recalled standing in the second row of a group of prisoners who had been lined up to watch as another group of prisoners were herded in front of Filipović.