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Bosnian-American mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter

Mirsad Bektić (born February 16, 1991)^[3] is a Bosnian-born American retired professional mixed martial artist who competed in the Featherweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)

Background

See also: Srebrenica Massacre and Bosnian War

Mirsad Bektić was born on February 16, 1991, to Bosnian Muslim parents in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina) amid the breakup of Yugoslavia. At the age of three, he relocated to Italy with his mother Suada and his siblings fleeing the Bosnian War, a conflict which claimed the lives of his maternal grandparents and several relatives.^[4] The family moved again for a five-year stay in Germany.^[5] Bektić moved to the United States at age nine,^[6] where his family settled in Lincoln, Nebraska.^[5] He has two older brother Dan Ige.