Branka Prpa, (born 1953 in

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) is a historian, author, and former director of Belgrade's Historical Archives (''Istorijski arhiv Beograda'').

Biography

In 1972, against the wishes of her family, she left Split for

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to study history at the

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. Soon, she got married, had a son, and remained living in the capital even after she graduated. In 1988, her book about Serb publishing in

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entitled ''Srpsko-dalmatinski magazin'' was published. Prpa, an ethnic

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, is better known to the public as the girlfriend of the slain Belgrade journalist and newspaper owner

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with whom she lived in an unmarried union. Prpa was with her common-law spouse on the day of his murder in April 1999. They were walking hand in hand, about to enter the front door of their apartment building when they were approached from behind by unknown men who murdered Ćuruvija and pistol-whipped Branka Prpa, briefly knocking her unconscious.

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criticised her scientific conclusions about the role of the Serbian quisling forces in

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and considered her work on the subject to be meet the criteria of

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