Olga Sučić

Olga Sučić
Born 1958
Died 5 April 1992(1992-04-05) (aged 33–34)
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Olga Sučić (1958 – 5 April 1992) was a Croat who is considered along with Suada Dilberović to be the first Bosnian casualties of the Bosnian War in Sarajevo.[1][2][3]

Death

On 5 April 1992, in response to events all over Bosnia and Herzegovina 100,000 people of all nationalities turned out for a peace rally in Sarajevo. Serb snipers in a Holiday Inn hotel under the control of the Serbian Democratic Party in the heart of Sarajevo opened fire on the crowd killing six people and wounding several more. An ethnic Bosniak woman Suada Dilberović and Olga Sučić were in the first rows, protesting on the Vrbanja bridge at the time. The bridge on which Sučić and Dilberović were killed was renamed in their honor. Six Serb snipers were arrested, but were exchanged when the Serbs threatened to kill the commandant of the Bosnian police academy who was captured the previous day, after the Serbs took over the academy and arrested him.[2][4][5]

It is disputed between Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs who the first casualties of the Bosnian war are. Bosniaks and Croats consider the first casualties of the war to be Suada Dilberović and Olga Sučić.[1][2][3][6] Serbs consider Nikola Gardović, a groom's father who was killed at a Serb wedding procession on the second day of the referendum, on 1 March 1992 in Sarajevo's old town Baščaršija, to be the first victim of the war.[7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Schmidt, B.; Schröder, I.; European Association of Social Anthropologists (2001). Anthropology of Violence and Conflict. Routledge. pp. 1–221. ISBN 9780415229050. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
  2. 1 2 3 Totten, S.; Bartrop, P.R.; Jacobs, S.L. (2008). Dictionary of Genocide: A-L. Greenwood Press. p. 190. ISBN 9780313346422. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
  3. 1 2 Clancy, T. (2007). Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Bradt Travel Guide. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 120. ISBN 9781841621616. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
  4. ↑ O'Shea, B. (2005). The Modern Yugoslav Conflict 1991-1995: Perception, Deception and Dishonesty. Frank Cass. p. 35. ISBN 9780415357050. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
  5. ↑ Kurspahić, K. (2003). Prime Time Crime: Balkan Media in War and Peace. United States Institute of Peace Press. p. 99. ISBN 9781929223398. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
  6. ↑ Donia, R.J. (2006). Sarajevo: A Biography. University of Michigan Press. p. 284. ISBN 9780472115570. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
  7. ↑ "INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE: CASE CONCERNING APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE" (PDF). June 1995. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
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