Name Suada Dilberovic | ||
Born 24 May 1968 ( 1968-05-24 ) Dubrovnik, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia Died 5 April 1992(1992-04-05) (aged 23)
Sarajevo, Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
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Suada Dilberovic (24 May 1968 – 5 April 1992) was a Bosniak medical student at the University of Sarajevo who is considered along with Olga Sucic to be one of the first casualties of the Bosnian War.
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Background
Suada Dilberovic was born in Dubrovnik, Croatia to a Muslim Bosniak family. She came to Sarajevo to study medicine and was in her sixth year of study when the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina started in the early days of April 1992.
On 15 November 2007 the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sarajevo posthumously awarded Suada a medical degree.
Death
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. Suada Dilberovic and an ethnic Croat woman 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.