Aco Apolonio
Appearance
Aleksandar "Aco" Apolonio | |
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1st President of the Dubrovnik Republic | |
In office 15 October 1991 – 4 May 1992 | |
Preceded by | office created |
Succeeded by | office abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Herceg Novi, Dalmatian Crownland, Austria-Hungary (present day Montenegro) | 11 November 1916
Died | 2001 (age 84/85) Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia |
Nationality | ![]() |
Aleksandar "Aco" Apolonio (sometimes written Apolonijo) was the President of the self-declared Dubrovnik Republic founded in October 1991.[1][2] Apolonio was a resident of Dubrovnik and in the past had served as a public prosecutor there.[1]
ICTY and death
During the trial of Slobodan Milošević at the ICTY, a witness had described Apolonio as a Croat, but close friend Serbian nationalist leader Vojislav Šešelj said as a witness that Apolonio was a Catholic Serb (see Serbs in Dubrovnik). Apolonio only described himself as "Ragusan".[1] He died in a refugee camp in Belgrade in 2001.
References
- ^ a b c "Transcript 050920IT". The Prosecutor v. Slobodan Milošević. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. 20 September 2005. p. 44342. Retrieved 2012-11-29.
- ^ Nigel Thomas, Krunoslav Mikulan, Darko Pavlović. The Yugoslav Wars (1): Slovenia & Croatia 1991-95, Volume 1. Pp. 54.