Suada Dilberović
| Suada Dilberović | |
|---|---|
| Born |
24 May 1968 Dubrovnik, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia |
| Died |
5 April 1992 (aged 23) Sarajevo, Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Suada Dilberović (24 May 1968[1] – 5 April 1992) was a Bosniak medical student at the University of Sarajevo who is considered along with Olga Sučić to be one of the first casualties of the Bosnian War.[2][3][4]
Background
Suada Dilberović was born in Dubrovnik, Croatia to a Muslim Bosniak family. She came to Sarajevo to study medicine and was in her sixth year of study when the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina started in the early days of April 1992.
On 15 November 2007 the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sarajevo posthumously awarded Suada a medical degree.[5]
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. Suada Dilberović and an ethnic Croat woman 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.[3][6][7]
See also
References
- ↑ "Bohemsa". Bohemsa.com. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
- ↑ Bettina E. Schmidt; Ingo Schröder (2001). Anthropology of Violence and Conflict. Routledge. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-415-22905-0. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
- 1 2 Samuel Totten; Paul Robert Bartrop (2008). Dictionary of genocide: A-L. ABC-CLIO. p. 190. ISBN 978-0-313-34642-2. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
- ↑ Tim Clancy (2007). Bradt Bosnia & Herzegovina. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-84162-161-6. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
- ↑ Archived November 18, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Brendan O'Shea (January 2005). The Modern Yugoslave Conflict 1991-1995: Perception, Deception and Dishonesty. Routledge. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-415-35705-0. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
- ↑ Kemal Kurspahić (1 January 2003). Prime Time Crime: Balkan Media in War and Peace. US Institute of Peace Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-1-929223-39-8. Retrieved 22 July 2013.