‘KRUG 99’: PROFESSOR LAVIĆ – NURIJA POZDERAC IS EXAMPLE OF BOSNIAN MAN WHO WAS FORGOTTEN IN PERIOD AFTER WORLD WAR II

SARAJEVO, JUNE 11 (ONASA) – It is important to remember Nurija Pozderac, because he is a typical example of a Bosnian man who was forgotten and ignored in the period after the Second World War, it was said at the regular session of the Association of Independent Intellectuals “Krug 99” on the topic “State-legal and political independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina and anti-fascism” on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the death of Nurija Pozderac on Sutjeska.
The keynote speakers were prof. Ph.D. Enes Durmišević from the Faculty of Law in Sarajevo, Alija Pozderac, Slavist and publicist, cousin of Nurija Pozderac, and prof. Ph.D. Senadin Lavić from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo.
Durmišević reminded her that Nurija Pozderac was a supporter of the Yugoslav idea, very active in Dobruja in creating volunteer detachments to fight against the Central Powers and to create the SFR Yugoslavia.
He pointed out that Nurija Pozderac returned to Cazin after the First World War, was mayor, became involved in political life and as a prominent member of the Yugoslav Muslim Organization (JMO) became the youngest representative in the Constituent Assembly of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
Durmišević pointed out that Nurija Pozderac, through his work and life, was a true example of a Krajišnik with a vision.
Lavić pointed out that it is always very important to talk and exchange ideas about the noble man Nurija Pozderac and the ideals he followed.
“It is especially important to remember Nurija Pozderac, because he is a typical example of a Bosnian man who was forgotten and ignored in the period after the Second World War, when bureaucrats and dubious cadres emerged who turned the struggle for the equality of people in a common state into a system of one-mindedness and in the end they destroyed it,” Lavić said.
He pointed out that Nurija Pozderac’s accession to the People’s Liberation Movement determined the fate of a large part of the Bosnian-Bosnian people in the Second World War.
In an audio message, Alija Pozderac spoke about the work and life of his cousin Nurija Pozderac, noting that in November 1942 in Bihać he was elected vice-president of the First Session of AVNOJ, the first government of the future Yugoslavia, thus becoming the first Bosniak with the highest political and executive office.
He reminded that by decree of the AVNOJ Presidency in September 1944, he was posthumously awarded the “Order of National Liberation” for his services in the war.
Nurija Pozderac was born in Cazin on January 15, 1892, and died in the vicinity of Tjentište on June 12, 1943 as a result of being wounded in battles with enemy German forces. He was a teacher and politician, a participant in the People’s Liberation Struggle and vice president of the Executive Committee of the Anti-Fascist Council of the People’s Liberation of Yugoslavia. (end)