Srđan Aleksić
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| Native name | Срђан Алексић |
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Srđan Aleksić May 9, 1966 Trebinje, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Died | January 27, 1993 (aged 26) Trebinje, Republika Srpska |
| Cause of death | Murder |
| Nationality | SFR Yugoslav |
| Other names | Srđo |
| Occupation | amateur actor, prospective swimmer, and soldier in the Bosnian Serb Army (VRS) |
| Known for | being killed while defending an ethnic Bosniak, his friend, from being attacked by a group of VRS soldiers |
Srđan Aleksić (Serbian Cyrillic: Срђан Алексић, 1966 – January 27, 1993), nicknamed Srđo, was a Yugoslav amateur actor, prospective swimmer, and soldier in the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) during the Bosnian War. He saw his neighbour, an ethnic Bosniak, being harassed by a group of VRS soldiers, whom he then tried to stop; the soldiers turned to Aleksić, beating him with their rifle butts until he fell into a coma. He died a week later at the hospital. He has received several posthumous awards for his act, viewed of as deeply heroic in a time of bloody war. A documentary about his life, Srđo, was made by RTS in 2007.
Aleksić was born in the municipality of Trebinje, then part of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia. His father Rade was a basketball coach, and his mother Mira, from Prijedor, died at an early age. His brother died in a hang glider accident, above the Petrovo field, near Trebinje.
Aleksić received several awards as an amateur actor, and continued to act during the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including in a play San ratne noći ("War night's dream"). He was also a prospective swimmer for Yugoslavia. During the Bosnian War, he was recruited into the Army of Republika Srpska (the Bosnian Serb Army).
On January 21, 1993, a group of four uniformed VRS soldiers forced Alen Glavović, an ethnic Bosniak, out of a café by the Freedom Square across the street from the police station, and started harassing and beating him. Glavović was the neighbour of Aleksić; he intervened and went towards them and shouted for them to stop, ending the attack. However, the four soldiers then turned against Aleksić and beat him severely with their rifle butts, leaving him falling into coma. Due to the incurred injuries, he died in the hospital on January 27, 1993. Srđan's father wrote in his obituary that "Srđan died carrying out his human duty" ("Umro je vršeći svoju ljudsku dužnost").
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