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Place of Birth: Opština Ljubovija, Mačva District, Serbia
About Emir Suljagić
- Emir Suljagic (born 21 May 1975 in Serbia then Yugoslavia) is the author of Postcards from the Grave, a first-hand account of the 1995 Srebrenica Massacre and life in the besieged enclave in north-eastern Bosnia before the UN "safe area" fell to the Bosnian Serb Army. During the War in Bosnia, Suljagic was a refugee.
- He was 17 years old when his family fled the ethnic cleansing of the Drina valley in 1992 and took refuge in Srebrenica.
- He taught himself English and became an interpreter for the UN forces stationed in the town.
- It was thanks to his employment as a UN interpreter that he survived mass execution of the men and boys of the enclave that followed the fall of the town.After the war, he attended the University of Sarajevo, where he studied political science.
- Since 1996, Suljagic has worked as a reporter for the magazine Dani.
- Between 2002 and 2004 he reported on the proceedings of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague for Dani and for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting.
- On the Bosnia and Herzegovina general election 2014 he was candidate to the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina as the Bosniak member. While serving as the Minister of Education for the Sarajevo Canton, Suljagic was accused of domestic violence by his wife, Behija Selimovic.
- On 29 December 2011, Selimovic called the police to report that Suljagic had attacked her in the apartment they shared.
- She reported that he had violently grabbed her by the neck, and then began damaging furniture in the apartment, at which point she escaped.
- The police arrived at the scene and found visible evidence of strangulation on her neck.
- The couple later divorced.
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