Career
He was a respected politician of the Yugoslav republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a statesmen of leftist political orientation. Pre-war engagements Bogić Bogićević was the first office-holder in Second Yugoslavia at the federal level to be democratically elected, as the representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1991. Bogićević is famous for having defied fellow Serb colleagues from Serbia on a vote in the presidency which would have imposed martial law in Yugoslavia and allow the Yugoslav army to remove recently elected secessionist governments, particularly in Croatia and Slovenia, as well as in Macedonia and his native Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bogićević rejected the proposal, and thus by one vote, the Yugoslav collective presidency voted against enacting martial law.
Wartime engagements Wartime period 1992 to 1995 he spent in Sarajevo under the siege. Post-war engagements Bogićević was the vice-president of the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and chairman of the Olympic Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Today Bogić Bogicevic lives and works in Sarajevo.
