Tomo Buzov

Tomislav "Tomo" Buzov (20 February 1940 – 27 February 1993) was a Croatian army officer in the Yugoslav People's Army who was murdered during the Štrpci massacre while trying to fend off perpetrators of the massacre.

His death has been the subject of the Palme d'Or-winning short film The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent.

Biography Buzov was an ethnic Croat, born in Kaštel Novi near Split in 1940. As a professional soldier in the Yugoslav People's Army, he had moved to Belgrade and spent most of his life there as a navy officer and signalman. He went into early retirement some time before the war in the early 1990s.

Aftermath In 2009, Lukić was sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Court in the Hague for other crimes. A Bosnian court accused him in 2020 for the massacre in Štrpci, but Lukić, imprisoned in Estonia, refused to acknowledge it.

The Bosniak kid saved by Buzov survived the war and has three children.

There is a memorial plaque and a dock named after him in his hometown of Kaštel Novi.

Buzov is the subject of the 2024 short film The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent, based on his death. It was directed by Nebojša Slijepčević, with Dragan Mićanović portraying Buzov. The film was a Croatian-Bulgarian-French-Slovenian co-production. It won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, as well as Best Fiction Short Film at the 50th César Awards and European Short Film at the 37th European Film Awards, while also being nominated for Best Live Action Short Film at the 97th Academy Awards.