Name Olga Sucic | ||
Died 5 April 1992(1992-04-05) (aged 33–34)
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
Sarajevo tokom i poslije opsade
Olga Sucic (1958 – 5 April 1992) was a Croat who is considered along with Suada Dilberovic to be the first Bosnian casualties of the Bosnian War in Sarajevo.
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On 5 April 1992, in response to events all over Bosnia and Herzegovina 100,000 people of all nationalities turned out for a peace rally in Sarajevo. Serb snipers in a Holiday Inn hotel under the control of the Serbian Democratic Party in the heart of Sarajevo opened fire on the crowd killing six people and wounding several more. An ethnic Bosniak woman Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sucic were in the first rows, protesting on the Vrbanja bridge at the time. The bridge on which Sucic and Dilberovic were killed was renamed in their honor. Six Serb snipers were arrested, but were exchanged when the Serbs threatened to kill the commandant of the Bosnian police academy who was captured the previous day, after the Serbs took over the academy and arrested him.
It is disputed between Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs who the first casualties of the Bosnian war are. Bosniaks and Croats consider the first casualties of the war to be Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sucic. Serbs consider Nikola Gardovic, a groom's father who was killed at a Serb wedding procession on the second day of the referendum, on 1 March 1992 in Sarajevo's old town Bascarsija, to be the first victim of the war.