Bogić Bogićević

Bogić Bogićević
6th Bosnian member of the Yugoslav Presidency
In office
May 16, 1989  April 27, 1991
Preceded by Raif Dizdarević
Succeeded by Post abolished
Personal details
Born Ugljevik
Nationality Serb
Political party Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bogić Bogićević (Богић Богићевић) is a Bosnian statesman of Bosnian Serb ethnicity, born in Ugljevik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia (present day Bosnia and Herzegovina). He was a respected politician of the Yugoslav republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a statesmen of leftist political orientation.

Engagements

Pre-war engagements

Bogić Bogićević was the first office-holder in Second Yugoslavia at the federal level to be democratically elected, as the representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1991.

Bogićević is famous for having defied fellow Serb colleagues from Serbia on a vote in the presidency which would have imposed martial law in Yugoslavia and allow the Yugoslav army to remove recently elected secessionist governments, particularly in Croatia and Slovenia, as well as in Macedonia and his native Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bogićević rejected the proposal, and thus by one vote, the Yugoslav collective presidency voted against enacting martial law.[1]

Wartime engagements

Wartime period 1992 to 1995 he spent in Sarajevo under the siege. He was a member of the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and vice president of the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Post-war engagements

Bogićević was the vice-president of the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and chairman of the Olympic Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Awards and medals

Personal life

Today Bogić Bogicevic lives and works in Sarajevo.

References

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