Milan Bulajić ( sr-cyr, Милан Булајић; 6 September 1928 – 29 November 2009) was a
Serbia
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n historian, expert in
Holocaust studies
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, and
Yugoslavia
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n diplomat. He was one of the founders of the and The Fund for Genocide Research () in
Belgrade
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.
Bulajić was born in
Vilusi near
Nikšić (now in
Montenegro
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), the son of an educated worker and grandson of a ''barjaktar'' (flag-bearer) in the
Montenegrin Army and later government deputy.
He joined the
Yugoslav Partisans
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at the start of
World War II
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.
He finished the law faculty in Belgrade in 1951 and received a master's degree at the journalist-diplomat school in 1952, as the best in class.
He received a doctoral degree in 1953. In the period of 1949–1987 he worked as an envoy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Among other roles, Bulajić served as an observer for Yugoslavia in the extradition proceedings against Ustaše minister
Andrija Artuković as well as an expert witness in his subsequent trial as well as the trials of the assassinators of Yugoslav diplomat
Vladimir Rolović
Vladimir Rolović (21 May 1916 – 15 April 1971) was a Yugoslav politician, diplomat, and a former high officer of the State Security Administration (UDBA). Holder of the "Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941" and as a former commander o ...
.
He was pensioned in 1987.
As a researcher, Bulajić promoted high figures for the number of victims of the
Jasenovac concentration camp. According to sociologist
Jovan Byford
Jovan Byford is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Open University in the United Kingdom.
Career and work
Byford is a native of Serbia. He received an M.Sc. in social and applied psychology from the University of Kent and a Ph.D. in social ...
, Bulajić belonged to a group of authors whose works supported the Serbian side against the Croatian side in a "war of words" which became propaganda war after the involvement of various state ministries. These authors depicted the "genocidal nature" of Croatian nationalism, as well as the role of the Catholic church in the
genocide
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committed in WWII, while denying the existence of any form of anti-Semitism in Serbia.
[Byford, Jovan (2011). Staro sajmište: mesto sećanja, zaborava i sporenja. Beogradski centar za ljudska prava. p. 147, .]
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20th-century Serbian historians
1928 births
2009 deaths
Yugoslav diplomats
Historians of the Holocaust
Writers from Nikšić
Serbian people of Montenegrin descent
University of Belgrade alumni
Museum directors