Borislav Mikelić

Borislav Mikelić (Борислав Микелић) (born 13 September 1939 in Dobrljin, then in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is a businessman and political figure of Croatian Serb background, who currently resides in Belgrade, Serbia.

A Serb born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, numerous members of Mikelić's family, including his parents, were killed in the Second World War by the Ustashas (Croatian fascists), along with masses of other Serbs, for involvement in the Partisan resistance movement. Eight of his relatives died in the notorious concentration camp Jasenovac. After the war, Mikelić grew up in orphanages in Slovenia and Croatia.

He came to reside in the municipality of Petrinja in the Croatian region of Banovina, where he soon rose in the political structure. In the 1970s he served as mayor of Petrinja, and was an important figure there for the rest of the Socialist period. He set up the enterprise Gavrilović, a meat processing firm, which was very successful, and he was recognised throughout Yugoslavia as a prominent businessman.

In the 1980s he rose to the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Croatia (SKH), and in April 1989 was elected to the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ). He was a prominent ethnic Serb in the Croatian party hierarchy.

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