Vojislav Stanimirović (politician)
Vojislav Stanimirović is a Croatian politician of Serb ethnicity politician and former president of the Independent Democratic Serb Party. He currently serves as member of the Sabor.Biography
Stanimirović was born in Tovarnik near Vukovar. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Belgrade.
During the 1991 Battle of Vukovar, Stanimirović was a reserve officer who led the medical corps of the Yugoslav People's Army. In 1992 the Yugoslav army named him director of the Vukovar Hospital and in 1993 he became a politician. Stanimirović served as mayor of Vukovar during the time when this town was under Serbian occupation.
In his 1993 article in a local newspaper "Vojska Krajine", the Vukovar Hospital was described as "the last Ustaše fort". Because of the related Ovčara massacre, the statement was met with outrage in Croatian media when it was published in the runup to the 2003 Croatian parliamentary election. Stanimirović said this claim had been edited into his article.
In 1995, Stanimirović was decorated with Order for Special Merits in Podunavlje by the former president of Republika Srpska, Radovan Karadžić in Banja Luka.
He served as member of the Croatian Parliament from 22 December 2003 until 11 January 2008. He was also elected in the 2007 Croatian parliamentary election, but served only until October 2008 when his deputy replaced him.
