Milan Bulajić ( sr-cyr, Милан Булајић; 6 September 1928 – 29 November 2009) was a

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n historian, expert in

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, and

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n diplomat. He was one of the founders of the and The Fund for Genocide Research () in

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. Bulajić was born in Vilusi near

Nikšić Nikšić (Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Никшић, ), is the second largest city in Montenegro, with a total population of 32,046 (2023 census) located in the west of the country, in the centre of the spacious Nikšić field at the foot of Trebjesa ...

(now in

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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 The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, and Slovene language, Slovene: , officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska i partizanski odr ...

at the start of

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. 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 Andrija Artuković (19 November 1899 – 16 January 1988) was a Croatian lawyer, politician, and senior member of the fascist Ustaše movement, who served as the Minister of Internal Affairs and Minister of Justice in the Government of the ...

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 Jasenovac () was a concentration camp, concentration and extermination camp established in the Jasenovac, Sisak-Moslavina County, village of the same name by the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in occupied Yugoslavia durin ...

. According to sociologist Jovan Byford, 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 Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people. Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" by ...

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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bulajic, Milan 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