Bogićević Hospitalized After Stroke, Condition Stable

(Patria) - Prominent former BiH politician Bogić Bogićević, who was the first democratically elected member of the Presidency of former Yugoslavia from SR BiH, has been admitted to the General Hospital 'Prim. Dr. Abdulah Nakaš', after suffering a stroke.

His condition is stable, it has been unofficially confirmed for Patria.

Bogić Bogićević was born in Ugljevik in 1953, and was a member of the Presidency of the SFRY from May 16, 1989, to September 1991.

He is best known as a participant in the historic session of the Presidency of the SFRY held on March 12, 1991, when this body decided on the introduction of a state of emergency in the SFRY. Formally, the military leadership proposed raising combat readiness, but the real goal was to introduce military rule in Slovenia and Croatia through a coup d'état and to overthrow the political leadership in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia through military-political measures.

Bogićević voted against it.

Pro-Milošević members of the Presidency of the SFRY counted on his vote, but to their surprise, Bogićević voted against it.

– I am a Serb, but not by profession – Bogićević said at the time.