2001 • Sinisa Glavasevic & Miguel Gil

Sinisa Glavasevic

Sinisa Glavasevic was a Croatian journalist, writer and poet, who worked in radio.  He graduated in Comparative Literature from the University of Sarajevo and obtained the diploma of librarian.  On returning to Vukovar, his native city, he became director of Croatian Radio.  During the siege of Vukovar he gave round-the- clock reports on the situation of the civilian population, read children’s stories and gave descriptions of the city as it had been before the siege. He was executed without trial in 1991 by the Yugoslavian National Army Forces and Serbian paramilitary groups.

Miguel Gil

Miguel Gil was a war correspondent who lived his profession as a service to his colleagues, to truthful reporting and to those innocent persons who suffered under the circumstances of war. He was a law-school graduate. At the beginning of the decade of the 1990´s, moved human rights ideals, he left for the war in Bosnia, and was soon sending reports to such newspapers as “La Vanguardia” Barcelona, “El Mundo”, Madrid and “Cadena Ser”. Shortly afterwards he went on  t