Štefica Galić

Wartime activities

Štefica Galić is an ethnic Croat from the Herzegovinian town of Ljubuški, in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1992, the Croat–Bosniak War broke out, part of the larger Bosnian War and the more larger Yugoslav Wars. The Bosniaks of Ljubuški were rounded up by the Croatian Defence Council on 15 August 1993. The Galićs falsified affidavits for the people interned in the camps to prove they had a relation outside of Bosnia and Herzegovina they could move to rather than stay at the camps.

Journalism Logo of the online magazine Tačno.net, established by Galić in 2010. After her husband's death in 2001, Galić became a journalist.

In 2017, Galić signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.

Galić won the International Johann Philipp Palm Award for Freedom of Speech and the Press 2018.