Dragoljub Milanović

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The destroyed RTS building in Belgrade

Dragoljub Milanović (* 1948 in a village near Blace , Yugoslavia ) is a former general director of Radio-Televizija Srbije (RTS).

He studied South Slavic language and literature at the University of Pristina . He then worked as a journalist for RTV Pristina and for the Belgrade newspaper Politika Ekspres . In 1989 he was elected executive secretary of the Serbian National Association of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia . From 1992 he was editor-in-chief of the information desk of RTS, in 1995 he was appointed director of RTS by the Serbian government.

During the Kosovo war , the RTS building in Belgrade was bombed by NATO on the night of April 23, 1999 , killing 16 Milanović employees and seriously injuring several. Amnesty International called the attack a war crime.

In 2002, Dragoljub Milanović was sentenced to ten years in prison for "violating public security" under Article 194, § 1 and 2 of the criminal law of the Republic of Serbia at the time. The court found that he had been warned and that the workers should have been sent home in accordance with the government-issued safety rules. On the political side, Milanović was accused of deliberately putting employees at lower levels of responsibility at risk to their lives in order to increase the number of civilian victims and thereby discredit NATO. Milanović invoked his duty to carry out the broadcasting mission and to inform the population about the consequences of the war. There was no safe place to work and he could not have imagined NATO deliberately bombing a civilian target.

Der Spiegel reported in January 2000 that NATO had canceled an attack that had already been initiated 24 hours earlier when it became clear that many RTS employees were still working in the building overnight. Unmistakable warnings were then sent. When numerous employees refused to show up for the night shift, Milanović threatened to lay off anyone who was absent without excuse. Amnesty International, however, claims there were no warnings.

In a separate criminal case, Milanović was charged with breach of trust in 2007. He was accused of having received around 470,000 euros in illegal payments by improperly allocating company apartments for the station.

In September 2010, Peter Handke and the French physician Patrick Barriot initiated a campaign for Milanović's release.

Milanović was imprisoned in Požarevac . He was released in late August 2012.

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  1. ↑ Violations of the Laws of War by NATO during Operation Allied Force Amnesty International , July 7, 2000, updated February 25, 2010, accessed April 8, 2019
  2. ↑ Yugoslavia: Ex-TV Boss Jailed Over NATO Bombing In: New York Times of June 22, 2002, accessed on June 25, 2011 (English)
  3. ^ Committee to Protect Journalists: Attacks on the Press 2002: Yugoslavia, March 31, 2003, accessed June 25, 2011
  4. ^ Daniela Dahn : The Story of Dragoljub Milanovic , accessed on April 8, 2019
  5. ↑ Kosovo (II): The Somewhat Different War In: Der Spiegel 2/2000 of January 10, 2000, accessed on June 25, 2011
  6. ^ No justice for the victims of NATO bombings Amnesty International, April 23, 2009, accessed April 8, 2019
  7. ↑ New indication against former RTS director ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: B92.net of May 8, 2007, accessed June 25, 2011 (English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.b92.net
  8. ↑ "They want to keep him as a political prisoner" Interview with Milanović's wife Liljana in Junge Welt on January 10, 2011, accessed on June 26, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Milanović, Dragoljub
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian radio and television director
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH at Blace