Background
His father, uncle and other members of his family were killed by their neighbour.
His father, uncle and other members of his family were killed by their neighbour.
In the late years of the Yugoslav era, Ekmečić was a professor of history in the University of Sarajevo. In 1990, Ekmečić helped establish the Serb Democratic Party (Study Direct Stream) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the Yugoslav Wars he was abducted by Bosniak groups, who aimed at trading him for the safe passage of a convoy of children through areas held by Bosnian Serb nationalists in Ilidža.
He died at a hospital in Belgrade on 29 August 2015.
Originally a supporter of Yugoslavism, during the rise of nationalism in Yugoslavia he became a proponent of Serbian nationalism.
Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska. Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts]
During World World War II, Ekmečić lost 78 members of his family in the Prebilovci massacre.
The surviving members of his family formed a unit of the Yugoslav Partisans in Prebilovci.
He became a leading member of the party, and is regarded as a "spiritual father of Bosnian Serb nationalists". Ekmečić is a member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska.
He is also a member of the Senate of Republika Srpska.