Siniša Glavašević

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Siniša Glavašević (born November 4, 1960 in Vukovar , † November 20, 1991 on the Ovčara farm near Vukovar) was a Yugoslav journalist who last reported for the local radio station during the Battle of Vukovar . He was murdered by Serbian militants during the Vukovar massacre .

Life

Glavašević graduated from school in his hometown of Vukovar up to university entrance. He then studied comparative literature and librarianship at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Sarajevo . After graduating , he worked as a teacher in Lovas and Borovo Naselje .

At Radio Vukovar and the Croatian radio, which was newly founded in 1990 in the course of Croatia's independence efforts , he was employed as a speaker and then as an editor . When the Croatian War broke out in 1991 , Glavašević also worked as a war correspondent and reported regularly during the Battle of Vukovar . He was one of the first journalists to report extensively on the besieged city.

Glavašević's grave in the Mirogoj cemetery (2008)

On November 18, 1991, Glavašević's last radio broadcast ended on the 87th day of the siege of the city with the words “... we walk past corpses, rubble, broken glass are everywhere and there is a cruel silence. ... We hope that the suffering in Vukovar is over now. "

Glavašević disappeared after the heavily destroyed Vukovar was conquered by the Yugoslav People's Army and Serbian militant groups. Amnesty International tried to find out his fate. His body was only discovered in a mass grave in 1997 during the exhumation of the victims of the Vukovar massacre . Glavašević was murdered by Serbian irregulars .

On November 12, 1991, Glavašević had managed to fax some of the texts from his reports from the enclosed Vukovar to the Croatian capital Zagreb . In 1992, the most important Croatian cultural association, Matica hrvatska, published a collection of reports by Siniša Glavašević under the title Priče iz Vukovara (Stories from Vukovar). This collection was first published in German in 1994; In 2011 for the first time also in English.

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SURNAME Glavašević, Siniša
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 4th 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Vukovar
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1991
Place of death Ovčara farm near Vukovar