The voice of the fallen City

Radio Vukovar became radio from the basement. They constantly moved him to escape the shells. However, even during the massive rocket fire, not one voice was silenced. At first it was a voice of defiance, and later it became the only voice of truth from a completely besieged City.

For the people of Vukovar, but also for the whole of Croatia, hearing Sinisa's voice meant that the city was still alive. It was an encouragement, a salvation.

Before the war, Radio Vukovar announcer Siniša Glavašević was a cheerful and witty young man. When fellow journalist Alenka would play Tina Turner, he would dance at the microphone, and they would always end their reports with Sinatra and his song "My Way".

In the early nineties, he had to choose his path. Instead of being average and fleeing for safety in fear, he defiantly decided to stay. He did his work with love and decided to do it that way until the end. During three months of long and dangerous fighting, he submitted daily reports on the situation in the besieged city. He wrote stories in it, hosted shows. He kept him alive.

In order to maintain his morale, he read stories to his fellow citizens on the radio every day about the fundamental human values ​​in which he never stopped believing.

On his 31st birthday, November 4, 1991, while going to the Vukovar hospital to collect data for a report, Siniša was wounded by a shell fragment. After that, he remains under treatment in the hospital.

Despite the signed agreement on the evacuation of the hospital, which was supposed to be carried out by the Red Cross, the JNA ignores the agreement, takes over the hospital and takes Siniša and the other wounded into the unknown. All traces of them are lost. The voice of hope has been silenced forever.

Sinisa's body was exhumed in Ovčara in February 1997. This young man became a symbol of Croatian war journalism with his courage. The voice of truth that never dies.