Marko Sjekavica

Marko Sjekavica was born in 1981 in Dubrovnik. He comes from an old Dubrovnik family which lost a large part of its property during the nationalisation process following the Second World War. After an idyllic childhood, when Marko was ten years old a war started and he found himself with his family in a town under siege. At the beginning of November 1991, with his mother and sister, he went to Opatija to seek refuge, and later went to Austria where they had family. After a few months they returned to Croatia where they remained refugees until spring 1992 when they returned to Dubrovnik which was no longer under siege, but still under war conditions. In the summer of 1992, when attacks on Dubrovnik intensified again, he once more left the town, with his sister and grandmother, this time going to Trpanj on the Pelješac peninsula. He graduated from grammar school in post-war Dubrovnik, after which he went to study law at Zagreb University. He did his apprenticeship at the ICTY, working in the prosecutor's office on the case of Momčilo Perišić. Today he lives in Zagreb and works in one of the non-governmental organisations as a monitor of war crime trials.