Radovan "Badža" Stojičić (
Serbian Cyrillic
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: Радован Баџа Стојичић; 1951 – 11 April 1997) was a Serbian police general, leader of the Public Security Service and acting
Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia.
Biography
He graduated from the High School of Internal Affairs in
Sremska Kamenica and the Faculty of Physical Education in Belgrade, where he received his master's degree in special forces physical fitness. He started as a
beat officer and was in charge of
Tašmajdan Park for many years.
He was later transferred as a physical education officer to the Secretariat of Internal Affairs of Belgrade and led
FK Milicionar
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History
Founded in 1946, the club was operated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Serbia), Ministry of Internal Affairs. They won the Second L ...
. In the mid-1980s, he was transferred to the
Serbian Ministry of the Interior, where he became deputy commander.
Stojičić became known for entering the Stari trg mine and putting a stop to the
Kosovo miners' strike in 1989. He was also the commander of the
Territorial Defense of
Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia in 1991, at a time of
fierce conflict in the area. From there, he came to the position of Chief of Public Security in the Ministry of the Interior of Serbia, and in 1992, he was appointed Deputy Minister. In April 1993 by decree of the President of Serbia,
Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević ( sr-Cyrl, Слободан Милошевић, ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the President of Serbia between 1989 and 1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugos ...
, he received the highest rank in the police: Colonel General.
When
Zoran Sokolović was elected
Federal Minister of the Interior, Stojičić was elected to serve as acting Minister of the Interior of Serbia.
Death
Stojičić was murdered on 11 April 1997 in the Mamma Mia restaurant in
Belgrade
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.
He was killed while he sat with his sixteen-year-old son.
His murder has not been solved.
He is interred in the
Alley of Distinguished Citizens in the
Belgrade New Cemetery.
See also
*
List of unsolved murders
References
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1951 births
1997 deaths
People from Niš
Interior ministers of Serbia
Serbia and Montenegro politicians
People of the Croatian War of Independence
People murdered in Serbia
Assassinations in Serbia
Unsolved murders in Serbia
Deaths by firearm in Serbia
Burials at Belgrade New Cemetery