June 9, 1936 - Nikola Koljević
A Shakespeare scholar and literary translator by training, Koljević presents one of the more striking contrasts the Bosnian War produced — an academic whose political role placed him at the center of ethnic cleansing operations later adjudicated by an international tribunal. His posthumous designation as a participant in a joint criminal enterprise reflects the scale of coordinated displacement carried out against Bosniak and Bosnian Croat civilians during his tenure in Republika Srpska's leadership.
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Nikola Koljević (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Кољевић; 9 June 1936 – 25 January 1997) was a Serbian politician, university professor, translator and an essayist, one of the foremost Yugoslavian Shakespeare scholars. In 2016, he was posthumously declared by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to have been part of a criminal enterprise aimed at expelling Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats from Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War.
Koljević served as the Serb Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina alongside Biljana Plavšić and was the Vice President of Republika Srpska during the Yugoslav Wars.
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