Slavko Aleksić (; born 1 September 1956) is a

Bosnian Serb The Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sr-Cyrl, Срби у Босни и Херцеговини, Srbi u Bosni i Hercegovini) are one of the three constitutive nations (state-forming nations) of the country, predominantly residing in the politi ...

Chetnik commander ('' vojvoda'') who commanded the New Sarajevo Chetnik Detachment of the

Army of Republika Srpska The Army of Republika Srpska ( sr, Војска Републике Српске/Vojska Republike Srpske; ВРС/VRS), commonly referred to in English as the Bosnian Serb Army, was the military of Republika Srpska (RS), the self-proclaimed Serb ...

during the Bosnian War.

Biography

Aleksić was born in 1956 in Bogdašići, near the Herzegovinian town of Bileća. He spent most of his life in

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see names in other languages'') is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. The Sarajevo metropolitan area including Sarajevo ...

, where he studied law and later worked in a post office. He was one of the founders of the Chetnik movement in Sarajevo in 1990. Since 1990, Aleksić has been a member of the

Serbian Radical Party The Serbian Radical Party ( sr-cyrl, Српска радикална странка, Srpska radikalna stranka, ''SRS'') is an ultranationalist political party in Serbia. It was founded in 1991, and its founder and current leader is Vojislav � ...

led by

Vojislav Šešelj Vojislav Šešelj ( sr-Cyrl, Војислав Шешељ, ; born 11 October 1954) is a Serbian politician, founder and president of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS); he was convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal ...

. After the

Sarajevo wedding attack Around 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, 1 March 1992, a Bosnian Serb wedding procession in Sarajevo's old Muslim quarter of Baščaršija was attacked, resulting in the death of the father of the groom, Nikola Gardović, and the wounding of a Serbian O ...

on 1 March 1992 and the start of the Bosnian War, he became the commander of the New Sarajevo Chetnik Detachment of the

based in Grbavica. He was appointed ''vojvoda'' by Vojislav Šeselj on 13 May 1993 and by

Momčilo Đujić Momčilo Đujić ( sh-Cyrl, Момчилo Ђујић, ; 27 February 1907 – 11 September 1999) was a Serbian Orthodox priest and Chetnik . He led a significant proportion of the Chetniks within the northern Dalmatia and western Bosnia r ...

on 27 January 1999. He distinguished himself in the battles around Grbavica, and was wounded three times. Among other things, with the New Sarajevo Chetnik Detachment, he held Serb positions at the Jewish cemetery, where the fiercest fighting took place at the demarcation line between Serb Sarajevo and Sarajevo and between the Army of Republika Srpska and

Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( bs, Armija Republike Bosne i Hercegovine or ARBiH), often referred to as Bosnian Army, was the military force of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was established by the government of ...

. After the

Operation Deliberate Force Operation Deliberate Force was a sustained air campaign conducted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), in concert with the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) ground operations, to undermine the military capability of the ...

in 1995, and after the signing of the

Dayton Agreement The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Agreement or the Dayton Accords ( Croatian: ''Daytonski sporazum'', Serbian and Bosnian: ''Dejtonski mirovni sporazum'' / Дејтонски миро ...

, in March 1996, he led the withdrawal of the Army of Republika Srpska and Serbs from Grbavica. After the war he settled in the woods around Bileća and is an active member of the Ravna Gora Movement of Republika Srpska.

References

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