Nationality Serbian Role Film director Name Dragoslav Bokan | Children 4 Spouse(s) Zeljka Zdjelar | |
 | ||
Books Politika: Mit, hronika, enciklopedija Similar People Dragos Kalajic, Mirko Jovic, Vojislav Seselj, Milic od Macve, Borisav Jovic | ||
Dragoslav Bokan predstavlja knjigu prof.dr Gideona Greifa "Jasenovac-Aušvic Balkana"
Dragoslav Bokan (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгослав Бокан; born 15 February 1961) is a Serbian film director and writer.
Contents
- Dragoslav Bokan predstavlja knjigu profdr Gideona Greifa Jasenovac Auvic Balkana
- Dragoslav bokan dobrica osi
- Biography
- Republika Srpska name claim
- Arrests
- Published books
- References
Dragoslav bokan dobrica osi
Biography
Bokan graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts at age 22. In 1989, he moved to Port Chester, New York and a year later he returned to Serbia where he joined the Serbian National Renewal party. Bokan was head of the paramilitary section of the party known as the White Eagles before its split. Some White Eagles members were convicted of war crimes and other atrocities, but not those under Bokan's command.
In the early 1990s he also worked for a Belgrade publishing company and wrote for Pogledi. He ran for the presidency of Serbia in the Serbian general election, 1992. He founded and led the short-lived Serbian Fatherland Association Party in 1993. The next year, in an interview with The New York Times, he was quoted as saying, "I don't believe in democracy because I don’t believe that any group at any time can change the course and goals of their ancestors."
Bokan was interviewed in the 1995 BBC documentary series The Death of Yugoslavia. A part of his interview from this series appears at the end of the Death in June song, "Lullaby to a Ghetto". In 2007, he created the Kosovo is Serbia billboard campaign with quotes from Willy Brandt, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, John F. Kennedy (JFK), and George Washington.
Bokan founded the Lepa Srbija, Rusija danas and Vodič za život magazines, and is a contributor to the Urban Book Circle. On 17 July 2014, he was named the Donetsk People's Republic representative in Serbia.
Republika Srpska name claim
In a July 2014 interview for Press, Bokan claimed that he, Goran Marić (Plavi orkestar founder) and Sonja Karadžić (Radovan Karadžić's daughter) created the name "Republika Srpska" as had been requested of them by Velibor Ostojić, then-Minister of Information.
Arrests
On April 23, 1992 he was arrested in Belgrade. He was accused of "possession of one hand grenade and four bullets found in his apartment" and was jailed for seven days. The trial lasted for a year and a half, and eventually resulted in a sentence of six months imprisonment. The arrest was an apparent effort to ease criticism of Serbia's role in the Bosnian War.