Nedeljko Neđo Galić (Ljubušak) dobitnik Nagrade za građansku hrabrost 2012 “Duško Kondor” (posthumno)
Dusko Kondor Award for Civil Courage and Dusko Kondor Award for Affirmation of Civil Courage
In 2007, NGO Gariwo founded the Duško Kondor Award for civil courage and Duško Kondor Award for affirmation of civil courage in honor and in memory of tireless and uncompromised fighter for civil courage Duško Kondor, teacher in high school ”Mihajlo Pupin” in Bijeljina, Director of NGO Gariwo Schools of Civil Courage and co-founder of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of RS, who was killed at his own flat in Bijeljina on 22 February 2007, in a political assassination.
NGO Gariwo gives the Duško Kondor Civil Courage Award and Dusko Kondor Award for affirmation of civil courage to the persons who, with their acts, ideas, efforts and personal example expressed and/or affirmed civil courage.
Based on 31 submitted proposals, NGO Gariwo International Award Commission made a decision on laureates for 2012.
Decision
The Duško Kondor Civil Courage Award and Dusko Kondor Award for Affirmation of Civil Courage for 2012 will be given as one collective and four individual as follows:
– As a collective award for civil courage to the citizens of
– To Nedeljko Neđo Galić for civil courage – posthumously
– Matija Stević for civil courage
– Budimir Budo Koprivica for civil courage
– Viktor Ivančić for affirmation of civil courage
Explanation
Nedeljko Neđo Galić, was born in Ljubuški in 1949. He was a photographer, played the guitar, was a passionate radio-amateur, wrote poetry… In everything he was ahead of time lake he knew that he wouldn’t have the time…He died in Ljubuški on 17.10.2010.
The Duško Kondor Civil Courage Award is given to Nedeljko Neđo Galić from Ljubuški, posthumously, because he risked his own life every day expressing his civil courage from August 1993 as follows:
• In the face of the persecution and injustice perpetrated against members of other ethno-national groups in Ljubuški, he protested loud and clear, with the following words: “People, this is insane, this is a crime, you cannot do this!”
• Having learned that the only way out of the Heliodrom camp for his fellow citizens was a call from abroad, which most of them were not able to obtain, he persistently made false calls and released them from captivity, thereby saving at least 1,000 people from the camp – many of them indeed from death.
• He helped most of the released prisoners to get documents to allow them to leave the
• When the last members of the persecuted ethnic group left Ljubuški, he decided to leave with his wife and three minor children and move abroad, with the comment: “If I stayed I would not be able to lift my head for shame. I don’t want to stay with fascists who want a ‘cleansed’ nation. Let them stay, let them live alone, ‘cleansed’.”
• When he came to
• Right after the
• Until the last day of his life, he was true to himself and his moral principles, insisting he be buried in the Sutina cemetery in Mostar, where he would not be with his neighbors. who had expelled his fellow citizens.
