Sarajevo journalist Slobodan Boban Minić has died at the age of 75.
Slobodan Boban Minić was born in Sarajevo on August 20, 1950. While still a student at the Faculty of Law, the University of Sarajevo, he began working as a journalist and editor at Radio Sarajevo, where he also hosted the show “MIVION”, through which he reunited lost families and friends during the war.
During the siege of Sarajevo, he was a journalist for the Open War Program. Shortly after, he moved with his family to L’Escala in Spain, where he worked for the Spanish media, where he particularly distinguished himself as a columnist for the daily newspaper “El Periódico de Catalunya”.
He also worked for Radio Free Europe, where he hosted a news program called “The Balkanization of Spain”.
He is also the author of the books “Bienvenido a Sarajevo, hermano” (“Welcome to Sarajevo, brother”) and “La vida i la muerte de Yugoslavia” (“The Life and Death of Yugoslavia”).
Thanks to the book “Bienvenido a Sarajevo, hermano”, the documentary film “Good Night Sarajevo” was also made, which was shown at more than 30 festivals around the world, writes RFE/RL.
“He had no gun; his only weapon was his words,” is the description of the film.
The film “Good Night, Sarajevo” is the story of Minic, who as a journalist remained in Sarajevo during the first two years and nine months of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He tried to distance his listeners from the brutality of the war, Klix.ba writes.
