Brano Miljuš

Brano Miljuš (born 15 January 1950 in Sanski Most, SR BiH, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian politician and academic from Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Former high-ranking official of the Yugoslav Communist League' (SKJ) Bosnia-Herzegovina branch, he was most recently a member of Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD).

In early 1999, he became the Prime Minister elect of Republika Srpska, Serbian entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Biography Education He began his education in his hometown Sanski Most, where he finished high school. After that, he enrolled at the Faculty of Political Sciences „Veljko Vlahović“ in Sarajevo, where he graduated and was later elected as an assistant, then as a senior assistant at the same faculty, in the period from 1974 to 1980.

Vojislav Šešelj himself later admitted that his goal at the time was neither the alleged plagiarism nor the competitor Brane Miljuš, but that he wanted to divert the attention of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina from Nenad Kecmanović: Ja sam krenuo direktno na Pozderca I headed straight for Pozderac. „To je bio način da pomognem Nenadu Kecmanoviću, protiv koga je krenula lavina optužbi iz Centralnog komiteta zbog njegovih napisa u beogradskom „Ninu“, pa sam ja na taj način pravio neku ravnotežu i krenuo direktno na Hamdiju Pozderca, što je Hamdija i shvatio.“ "It was a way to help Nenad Kecmanović, against whom a series of accusations were launched from the Central Committee because of his articles in Belgrade's magazine "NIN", that's why I created a kind of balance and turned directly to Hamdija Pozderac, which he understood."

It is assumed that this resentment, as well as Šešelj's ultranationalist orientation, as well as the Marxist bias of the court, ultimately led to his expulsion from the faculty, surveillance by the UDBA (State Security Service), and, on top of that, "earned" him a lengthy eight-year prison sentence. He was convicted on 9 July 1984 for acting with what the verdict stated were "anarcho-liberal and nationalist views", thereby committing "the criminal act of endangering social order". The trial used witness statements from private conversations and the unpublished text of a questionnaire entitled "Шта да се ради?" The Supreme Court of the SFRY gradually reduced the sentence, so that he ultimately served almost two years and was released in 1986. which was lowered onto his funeral pyre after the death of Josip Broz on May 4 in 1980, i.e. before the Day of Youth, which was celebrated with the handing over of the baton to Tito in Belgrade on 25 May, his birthday. The decision that Miljuš, then president of the Youth of Bosnia and Herzegovina, would be in charge of this symbolic moment on the day of the funeral was made because the baton was in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time of Tito's death (4 May 1980) and its journey was practically stopped. The somewhat unusual decision to hand over the baton to Tito's dead body was made by the presidium of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, which was informed by the then member of the presidium, Nikola Stojanović.