Gojko Đogo (
Serbian Cyrillic
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: Гојко Ђого; born 21 November 1940) is a
Serb
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poet.
A dissident, he was imprisoned in
SFR Yugoslavia
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during the 1980s on the basis of verbal offence for "defaming the memory of
Josip Broz Tito
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".
In December 1989, he was one of the
founders
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Places
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* Founders Park, a waterside park in Islamorada, Florida
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Founders (''Star Trek''), the ali ...
of the
Democratic Party in, Serbia. Đogo is a member of the
(ANURS).
In October 1991, a phone conversation between Đogo and
Radovan Karadžić
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was recorded, in which Karadžić says that around 300,000
Muslim
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s living in
Sarajevo
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may be killed in the upcoming war, and Đogo is heard commenting "They should all be slaughtered. All of them."
Works
*''Tuga pingvina'', 1967
*''Kukuta'',1978
*''Vunena vremena'', 1982
*''Izabrane i nove pesme'', 1986
*''Crno runo'', 2002
References
Living people
1940 births
People from Ljubinje
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbian male poets
Yugoslav dissidents
Members of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska
Democratic Party (Serbia) politicians
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