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Aleksandar "Aco" Apolonio
1st President of the Dubrovnik Republic
In office
15 October 1991 – 4 May 1992
Preceded byoffice created
Succeeded byoffice abolished
Personal details
Born(1916-11-11)11 November 1916
Herceg Novi, Dalmatian Crownland, Austria-Hungary (present day Montenegro)
Died2001 (age 84/85)
Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia
Nationality Ragusan

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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Nigel Thomas, Krunoslav Mikulan, Darko Pavlović. The Yugoslav Wars (1): Slovenia & Croatia 1991-95, Volume 1. Pp. 54.