SARAJEVO, JUNE 3 (ONASA) – The Bosnian diaspora in North America sent off to a better world these days the patriot and humanist Mujko Erović, master of legal sciences, one of the founders and chairman of the first Assembly of the Congress of Bosniaks and the author of the Statute of this organization, as well as a long-time editor and host of Radio Glas Bošnjak and owner of the magazine Ujedinjena Bosna in Chicago.
This man from Banjaluka made a great contribution to the activities of the Response to Genocide Agency and to the collection of funds for our state’s lawsuit against the former SFRY. He left an indelible mark in documenting the tragedy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period 1992-1995. year. He especially stood out as a writer and publisher of the work “Why 1,001 mosques were destroyed in Bosnia”, as well as in the organization of 15 annual meetings in Chicago and 10 congresses of Bosniaks in North America held so far.
Among other things, Mujko Erović was involved in the work of the Chicago newspapers Zambak and Tribina Bošnjaka. He was a participant in several significant cultural and humanitarian actions, and collaborated with the Bosnian Consulate in that American metropolis. The people of Banjoluc also remember him as the successful general director of the Institute for Dystrophy, who took care of the training and employment of the disabled. In Chicago, among other things, he worked for years as a teacher at a school for children with special needs.
He lived with his heart and soul for Bosnia and Herzegovina and its inhabitants all over the world.
He moved to the afterlife at the age of 67. With his departure from the scene of life, our homeland, as well as the Bosnian community in that part of the world, lost. He was buried at the Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago.