Dada Vujasinović

Who is Dada Vujasinović?

Radislava "Dada" Vujasinović was a reporter for the news magazine Duga, published in Belgrade. She covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia from the start and frequently visited the front lines and even Sarajevo while it was under siege. In 1992 she announced on that she would no longer report from battlefields because she could not bear writing about the destruction of cities and the killing of children.

She returned to Belgrade and started reporting on politics. One of her most famous pieces is a piece about Željko Ražnatović, aka Arkan, in which she describes how a criminal was promoted to a national prophet. The piece was written with much sarcasm and irony.

She was found dead in her apartment on 8 April 1994. The police ruled it a suicide, but most evidence disputes this. She was active the day before and made many plans for the future. The diaries of Ratko Mladić mentioned that he knew who murdered Dada and this may help reopen an investigation into her death. The Serbian government began a review in 24 January 2013 of several suspicious cases involving the alleged murders of journalists, including Dada Vujasinović, Slavko Ćuruvija, and Milan Pantić.