Safet Oručević
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Safet Oručević (born 30 May 1955 in Mostar) is a Bosnian politician and media businessman.
Despite formally retired, he remains active in the political scene of Mostar, where he is deemed a controversial character.[1]
He gained popularity during and after the war in Bosnia, in 1994–2002, when he was mayor and deputy mayor of Mostar. He participated in the reconstruction of Mostar, the unification and reconciliation of the citizens of that city and improved the living conditions of Mostar.[2] In 1998 Oručević was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Medallion of UNESCO.[3]
In 1997 Oručević founded the NGO Center for Peace and Multiethnic Cooperation (Centar za mir i multietničku saradnju, CPMC), ,[4] which bestowed the International peace award "Mostar" to Alois Mock (2004), Vaclav Havel (2005) and Nelson Mandela (2006).[5] In 2017 the CPMC formed the "Council for the Support of the Renovation of the Partisan Monument" (Odbor za Podršku Obnovi Partizanskog Spomen), fundraising and directly acting on the Mostar Partisan Cemetery by cutting vegetation, removing graffiti, filling cracks and finally hanging the BiH flag on the downer wall. The "renovated" Partisan Cemetery was inaugurated on 9 May 2019 (the Day of Victory over fascism, the Day of Europe, and the date on which the second siege of Mostar started in 1993), at the presence of the EU Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a ceremony in which the European flag was projected on the biggest wall of the Cemetery while the Ode to Joy, the European Anthem was played.[1]
Oručević owns the company IUC Consulting GmbH, based in Vienna, which is involved in the construction and sale of real estate and energy projects in Southeast Europe. [6]
With the technical equipment and personnel of former RTV Mostar,[7] in 2010 Oručević founded the private channel TV1, deemed close to Haris Silajdžić's Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (to whom Safet Oručević was a close friend). Oručević later sold the channel, which in 2019 turned into O Kanal.[8] In addition, Oručević was the owner of a series of web portals: vijesti.ba,[9] 24sata.info, biznis.ba, energetika.ba, cuvajzdravlje.ba. Oručević later expanded his media empire to Croat-majority West Mostar, by purchasing the web portals bljesak.info and hercegovina.info, which started to promote alternative voices to the dominant HDZ BiH party.[10]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Aline Cateux
- ↑ Reunifying Mostar: Opportunities for progress, ICG, 19 April 2000
- ↑ Mostar 2004
- ↑ Centar za Mir
- ↑ "Arhivirana kopija". Archived from the original on 19 March 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2014. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ IUC Group
- ↑ Glas Srpske
- ↑ Starmo
- ↑ RTVBN
- ↑ H1info
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