Radislava "Dada" Vujasinović ( sr-cyrl, Радислава "Дада" Вујасиновић, ; 10 February 1964 – 8 April 1994) was a Serbian journalist and reporter for the news magazine '' Duga'', published in

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Career

She covered the early stages of

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and frequently visited front lines, including the city of

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while it was

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. In 1992 she announced that she would no longer report from battlefields because she could not bear writing about the destruction of cities and the killing of children. She returned to Belgrade and started reporting on politics. One of her most famous pieces is a piece about

Arkan Željko Ražnatović (, ; 17 April 1952 – 15 January 2000), better known as Arkan (), was a Serbian warlord, mobster and head of the Serb paramilitary force called the Serb Volunteer Guard during the Yugoslav Wars, considered one of the most f ...

, in which she describes how a criminal came to be promoted as a national prophet. The piece was written with much sarcasm and irony.

Death and aftermath

She was found dead in her apartment on 8 April 1994. The police ruled it a suicide, but most evidence disputes this. She was active the day before and made many plans for the future. The diaries of

Ratko Mladić Ratko Mladić ( sr-Cyrl, Ратко Младић, ; born 12 March 1942) is a Bosnian Serb former military officer who led the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) during the Yugoslav Wars. In 2017, he was found guilty of committing war crimes, crim ...

mentioned that he knew who murdered Dada implying that it was

Goran Vuković Goran Vuković (; 1959 – 12 December 1994) was a Serbian gangster who earned his nickname ''Majmun'' () due to his unique style of breaking and entering apartment building units: climbing and scaling the structures, utilizing balconies and ...

and Duško Malović. This may help reopen an investigation into her death. The Serbian government began a review in January 2013 of several suspicious cases involving murders of journalists in the 1990s, including Dada Vujasinović,

Slavko Ćuruvija Slavko Ćuruvija ( sr-Cyrl, Славко Ћурувија, ; 9 August 1949 – 11 April 1999) was a Yugoslav and Serbian journalist, newspaper publisher. His murder on 11 April 1999 in Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia provoked international outrage and wi ...

, and Milan Pantić. In 2014
Hleb Teater
(Belgrade) created the performance "Dada - an Essay in Motion", based on Vujasinović's life, work and death.

References

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Career

Death and aftermath

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