Luko Brailo
Luko Brailo was born in 1950 in Dubrovnik. After studying economics he got a job at Dubrovački vjesnik, where his journalistic career began. He worked at Slobodna Dalmacija, Feral Tribune, Jutarnji list and Novi list. As a journalist for Slobodna Dalmacija he followed the first of the 'meetings of solidarity', which were a part of the so-called Anti-bureaucratic revolution. Until September 1991 he regularly went to Montenegro and he followed what was going on. He maintained contact with members of the Liberal Alliance of Montenegro who were opposing the predominant political climate and advocating the independence of Montenegro. At the beginning of the attack on Dubrovnik he was in the town and he shared the destiny of the other inhabitants for the whole duration of the siege. His wife and children took refuge in Italy. In August 1993, following the end of the siege of Dubrovnik, he went back to Montenegro to meet his friends from the Liberal Alliance and the Monitor weekly newspaper. Apart from journalism, Luko Brailo is involved with documentary work and publishing. He has put together and extensive archive of records relating to war events in the south of Croatia in the 1990s. Today he is retired and he lives in Dubrovnik.