Borislav Paravac, a former member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, died today in Doboj after a long and serious illness, the City Administration of Doboj announced.
Paravac was born in 1943 in Kostajnica near Doboj.
After the first multi-party elections in BiH, as an SDS official, he performed the duties of president of the Executive Committee of the Doboj Municipal Administration for a whole decade.
Paravac was a deputy in the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska and a delegate in the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, and then a member of the BiH Presidency from among the Serbian people. He was also a member of the Senate of the Republika Srpska.
Paravac was accused of war crimes at the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and after an almost ten-year trial, he was legally acquitted in December 2025.
The commemoration of Paravac’s death will be held on Friday, February 20, in the large hall of Pavlović University at 11:00 a.m., and on the same day at 1:00 p.m. he will be buried at the local Kostajnica cemetery near Doboj.
