Boro Vukmirović
| Boro Vukmirović | |
|---|---|
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| Nickname(s) | Crni |
| Born |
August 1, 1912 Bratsigovo, Kingdom of Bulgaria |
| Died | April 10, 1943 (aged 30) Prizren, Albanian Kingdom |
| Allegiance |
 Yugoslav Partisans
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| Service/branch | General HQ |
| Years of service | 1941–43 |
| Battles/wars | World War II in Yugoslavia |
| Awards | Order of the People's Hero |
Borko "Boro" Vukmirović (Cyrillic: Борко Боро Вукмировић; 1 August 1912 – 10 April 1943) was one of the organizers of the anti-fascist uprising in Kosovo.
He was posthumously awarded the Order of the People's Hero.
Vukmirović was born on August 1, 1912 in Bratsigovo, Bulgaria. His father Nikola, originally from Rijeka Crnojevića, Montenegro, took park in the Ilinden Uprising in 1903. After the uprising was supressed, Nikola was imprisoned in Turkey later moving to Bulgaria where he married Stojanka with whom he had three sons: Boro, Andro and Rade. In 1914, the family moved to Peć where Boro completed elementary school and six grades of gymnasium. At that time, the Peć gymnasium had only six grades and further education had to be completed in Prizren for which his parents didn't have the funds. After completing his sixth grade, he found a job as a worker. He worked in Peć and other places in Kosovo and Metohija.
As a young worker, he joined the labour movement. He became a member of the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) in 1932 and a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ) in 1933. Near the end of 1934, he became a bureau member of the Communist Party District Committee for Peć.
Due to his revolutionary activities, he was sought and arrested numerous times by the police. In 1935, he was arrested and tortured in a police prison in Peć. He was then brought before the state court in Belgrade but due to a lack of evidence he was freed. At the first regional KPJ conference for Kosovo and Metohija at the beginning of July 1937, he was chosen as the organizational secretary for the Regional Committee. At the beginning of August 1940, he was chosen as a member of the KPJ Regional Committees for Montenegro, Sandžak and Kosovo and Metohija. In October 1940, Vukmirović was in Zagreb for the Fifth Worldwide KPJ Conference at which he was a candidate for member of the CK KPJ. He was organizer of numerous strikes, demonstrations and other working class protests in Peć and other places in Kosovo and Metohija such as the large anti-fascist demonstrations on May 11, 1940 and the March demonstrations in Peć in 1941.
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