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Srdjan Aleksić was a Herzegovinian Serb amateur actor, prospective swimmer, and soldier in the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) during the War in Bosnia. He lost his life on this day in 1993 while defending an ethnic Bosniak, his friend, from being attacked by a group of VRS soldiers, by which he has received several posthumous awards, and a documentary of his life, Srđo, was made by RTS in 2007.
On 21 January 1993, a group of Army of the Republika Srpska soldiers inspected several people at the Trebinje market. After establishing that one of them, Alen Glavović, was a Bosniak, they started harassing and beating him; Glavović was the neighbour of Aleksić. He immediately intervened and tried to aid Glavović, so the four soldiers turned against him and beat him to death with their rifle butts, in front of police officers. Due to the incurred injuries, Srđan fell into a coma, and died on 27 January 1993. Srđan’s father wrote in his obituary that “Srđan died carrying out his human duty”.
One of the attackers on Srđan was killed during the war, whilst the rest were convicted to twenty-eight months in prison.
Alen Glavović today lives in Sweden, and is married with two kids. Every year he visits Trebinje, Srđan’s grave and his father.
Photo: www.rts.rs
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