Prominent journalist Marinko Sekulic, who has been working as a correspondent for Radio Deutsche Welle (DW) from Srebrenica for years, is promoting his first book, “As our correspondent from Srebrenica reports” on Friday.
The book is a reportage record on the returns, people and events after the war, which were published on Radio DW. Promoters of “the book that is read and listened to” are journalist Marko Divkovic and prof. Mirsad Mustafic. Promotion will be organized on Friday, the 27th of November, at 3:30 p.m. in the Cultural Center in Srebrenica.
Although he was born in Sarajevo, Sekulic spent almost his entire lifetime in a small town in eastern B&H. He was one of the first journalists who entered Srebrenica after the war, and then he returned to his town. He tried to eliminate media blockade after the war, but because of his work and ways of reporting, anonymous calls, death threats or threats of burning his house were frequent.
He was the first journalist who was reporting from the field about the returns in Gajevi, Dugi Dio, Jusici, villages in eastern B&H.
With the help of his friends from Tuzla, he founded the Citizens’ Forum in Srebrenica, an organization which reunited Bosniaks and Serbs for the first time after the war, and launched a newsletter “Srebrenicke novine,” since the local RTV station was shut down. He criticized local and international officials, he was revealing scandals on donations and he was often the target of threats and pressures.
He never gave up and he is still working as a correspondent from this small B&H town.
(Source: klix.ba)
