Remembering Srebrenica

Reviewing the week of 8-14 July (#28) and previewing the week of 15-21 July (#29) of 2024.

News Roundup

Remembering the Srebrenica Genocide

As every year, Balkan Insight, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty , Sarajevo Times ran a series of articles in relation to the anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.

* Balkan Insight
* Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
* Sarajevo Times

In Other News

“Euro 2024: The impact of (geo)politics on the European football championship,” Vijesti, 13.07.2024

“Flags of various political and military organizations, nationalist symbols and greetings, songs that call for hatred and violence, were not absent from this year’s European Championship either.“

“They were Yugoslav, Soviet, Czechoslovak and French and played football.

“It sounds like the beginning of a joke from the Second World War, but it is actually a direct description of the situation at the first European Football Championship in 1960.“

Today in History

Events

• 15 July 1946 – The trial of Dragoljub Draža Mihajlović and others, the so-called Belgrade Process, concludes in Belgrade, with convictions of treason and war crimes.
• 18 July 1942 – The Battle of Kozara concludes with a German victory.
• 19 July 1956 – Leaders of Yugoslavia, India, and Egypt sign the Brijuni Declaration, establishing the Non-Aligned Movement.

Birthdays

• 15 July
  • 1896 – Alfred Albini, Croatian architect
  • 1910 – Aleksandar Tirnanić, Serbian/Yugoslav football player and coach
  • 1922 – Božidar Petrović, Serbian/Yugoslav architect and professor
  • 1923 – Trajče Popov, Macedonian filmmaker
  • 1924 – Petar Slovenski, Serbian/Yugoslav actor
  • 1928 – Slobodan Ž. Marković, Serbian/Yugoslav literary historian
  • 1953 – Neda Arnerić, Serbian actress and art historian
  • 1961 – Damir Martinović, Croatian musician (Termiti, Let3)
  • 1963 – Igor Džambazov, Macedonian actor and musician
• 16 July
  • 1899 – Božidar Jakac, Slovenian painter
  • 1920 – Mladen Šerment, Croatian/Yugoslav actor
  • 1921 – Koste Crvenkovski, Macedonian Partisan and dissident
  • 1937 – Andrija Anković, Croatian/Yugoslav football player and coach
  • 1941 – Mišo Kovač, Croatian singer
  • 1963 – Srečko Katanec, Slovenian/Yugoslav football player and coach
• 17 July
  • 1927 – Adi Mulabegović, Bosnian/Yugoslav caricaturist and cartoonist
  • 1934 – Radmila Radovanović, Serbian/Yugoslav actress
  • 1947 – Žarko Knežević, Serbian/Yugoslav basketballer
• 18 July
  • 1934 – Dara Čalenić, Serbian actress
  • 1938 – Radomir Reljić, Serbian painter
  • 1944 – Jelena Šantić, Serbian ballerina and activist
• 19 July
  • 1929 – Ilija Ladin, Bosnian poet
  • 1960 – Milenko Savović, Serbian/Yugoslav basketballer
  • 1964 – Saša Lošić, Bosnian singer (Plavi Orkestar)
• 20 July
  • 1917 – Borko Arsenić, Serbian/Yugoslav Partisan and JNA officer; People’s Hero of Yugoslavia
  • 1924 – Dušan Bilandžić, Croatian/Yugoslav historian
  • 1925 – Milan Mihelič, Slovenian architect
  • 1945 – Ilija Katić, Serbian/Yugoslav footballer
  • 1956 – Mima Jaušovec, Slovenian/Yugoslav tennis player
  • 1962 – Lidija Vukićević, Serbian/Yugoslav actress
  • 1962 – Primož Ulaga, Slovenian/Yugoslav ski jumper
• 21 July
  • 1919 – France Filipič, Slovenian poet and journalist
  • 1920 – Nada Klaić, Croatian/Yugoslav historian
  • 1924 – Slavko Simić, Serbian/Yugoslav actor
  • 1924 – Alojz Rebula, Slovenian writer
  • 1937 – Božidar Stošić, Serbian/Yugoslav actor
  • 1941 – Veljko Rogošić, Croatian/Yugoslav swimmer
  • 1949 – Bruno Langer, Croatian musician (Atomsko Sklonište)
  • 1957 – Tihomir Arsić, Serbian/Yugoslav actor
  • 1957 – Hasan Dudić, Serbian folk singer
  • 1960 – Ljubomir Radanović, Serbian/Yugoslav football player

Deaths

• 15 July
  • 1944 – Vera Čiriviri-Trena, Macedonian Partisan
  • 1971 – Ljubiša Jovanović, Serbian/Yugoslav actor
  • 1990 – Zaim Topčić, Bosnian/Yugoslav writer
  • 1993 – Boža Ilić, Serbian painter
  • 2018 – Branimir Babarogić, Serbian footballer and referee
• 17 July
  • 1941 – August Cesarec, Croatian writer and journalist
  • 1969 – Nestor Aleksijević Mirčevski, Macedonian wood carver
  • 1986 – Risto Šiškov, Macedonian actor
  • 1992 – Stefan Gajdov, Macedonian composer
  • 1996 – Bratko Kreft, Slovenian theater dramaturg, director, and publicist
• 19 July
  • 1921 – Borka Taleski, Macedonian communist and Partisan; People’s Hero of Yugoslavia
  • 1984 – Marko Tajčević, Serbian musicologist
• 21 July
  • 1984 – Živko Firfov, Macedonian ethnomusicologist
  • 1985 – Zoran Radmilović, Serbian/Yugoslav actor
  • 1985 – Aleksandar Vučo, Serbian/Yugoslav poet
  • 1985 – Zoran Radmilović, Serbian actor
  • 1989 – Danilo Lokar, Slovenian writer
  • 2000 – Stanojlo Rajičić, Serbian/Yugoslav composer
  • 2001 – Koste Crvenkovski, Macedonian Partisan and dissident
  • 2007 – Dubravko Škiljan, Croatian linguist
  • 2017 – Predrag Gojković Cune, Serbian/Yugoslav singer

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