Oliver Ivanović

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Oliver Ivanović (2011)

Oliver Ivanović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Оливер Ивановић , Albanianized Oliver Ivanoviq ; born April 1, 1953 in Rznić near Dečani , SAP Kosovo , SFR Yugoslavia ; † January 16, 2018 in North Mitrovica , Kosovo ) was a Serbian - Kosovar politician and most recently leader the citizens' initiative Sloboda, Demokratieija, pravda ("Freedom, Democracy, Justice").

Life

Since 1999 he has been the de facto leader of the Serbian minority in Kosovo accepted by the Serbian government. He was considered one of the few Serbian politicians who also spoke Albanian and maintained good relations with the Albanian majority in the country. From 2008 to 2012 he was State Secretary of the Serbian Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija .

In 2016, he was sentenced to nine years in prison for alleged war crimes in the Kosovo war by a court established by the EULEX mission in Kosovo . On his appeal , the judgment was overturned in February 2017, Ivanović was released and new criminal proceedings were initiated.

In the years before his assassination, Ivanović came into increasing conflict with the Belgrade government . His car was set on fire by strangers . In the 2017 local election campaign, he openly criticized the Serbian government of Aleksandar Vučić and said that the Serbs in Kosovo are no longer afraid of Albanian extremists, but of criminal and extremist Serbs.

On January 16, 2018, Ivanović was shot dead by strangers in a passing car in North Mitrovica, the part of the city of Mitrovica north of the Ibar River . The talks scheduled for that day between representatives of Kosovo and Serbia in Brussels were initially canceled after the attack .

Private

In addition to his native Serbian , Ivanović also spoke Albanian , Italian and English . He was married to Milena Popović Ivanović and had four sons with her.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Ivanović at TRIAL International , June 7, 2016
  2. ^ A b tagesschau.de: Attack in Kosovo: Serbian politician shot. Retrieved January 16, 2018 (German).
  3. ↑ Keno Verseck: Fatal shots shake the Balkans. Spiegel online from January 16, 2018
  4. ↑ Serbian-Kosovar politician shot dead on the street . Süddeutsche Zeitung from January 16, 2018
  5. ^ A b Adelheid Wölfl: Kosovo politician Oliver Ivanović: Execution of a peacemaker. on derstandard.at , accessed on January 16, 2018.
  6. ↑ Important Serbian politician shot dead in Kosovo. Die Welt from January 16, 2018
  7. ↑ Supruga Olivera Ivanovića: Pozlilo mi je, kako da mi ne pozli posle svega što smo Oliver i ja proživeli . In: Nedeljnik . ( nedeljnik.rs [accessed January 16, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Ivanović, Oliver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ивановић, Оливер (Serbian Cyrillic); Ivanoviq, Oliver (Albanian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian-Kosovar politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Rznić near Dečani , Yugoslavia
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2018
Place of death North Mitrovica , Kosovo