ZAGREB, Oct 26 (Hina) - Writer, former Television Sarajevo reporter and author of awarded documentaries, Mladen Vukasinovic, died this Sunday on the Croatian island of Cres where he found refuge after he had been exiled from Pale
(Bosnian entity of Republika Srpska) in 1992.
ZAGREB, Oct 26 (Hina) - Writer, former Television Sarajevo reporter
and author of awarded documentaries, Mladen Vukasinovic, died this
Sunday on the Croatian island of Cres where he found refuge after he
had been exiled from Pale (Bosnian entity of Republika Srpska) in
1992. #L#
Zagreb publisher Durieux published his book "Pale, diary 5.4 -
15.7.1992".
In these dramatic book which he managed to smuggle as a refugee,
Vukasinovic described the first 100 days of Karadzic's reign of
terror, and in a suggestive way noted the ethnic cleansing in his
home town and surroundings, until he himself and his wife were
exiled and boarded a UNHCR bus.
The book was published in Vienna in 1997, and the foreword was
written by Joschka Fischer.
Vukasinovic led a very secluded life. he refused an offer to return
to the Sarajevo television and decided to stay on the island of Cres
and the peninsula of Istria across which he travelled often,
sometimes writing sketches for Slovenia's Primorske novice paper.
Vukasinovic was born in pale in 1942, as he wrote himself, by
Orthodox father and Catholic mother.
He graduated from the Sarajevo University of Philosophy, and in
1971 began working for TV Sarajevo.
The last documentary he signed was filmed in January 1992 about the
destruction of Dubrovnik. he gave it a title based on a novel by
Fedja Sehovic - The Liberation of the Devil.
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