Miroslav Bogdanović was born in 1954 in Split. His father was a JNA [Yugoslav National Army] officer who moved from Serbia to Split following a posting. At the beginning of the war in the 1990s, Miro Bogdanović was the owner of a restaurant in Split. From the very beginning of the war, on several occasions, he was the victim of human rights violations. Because of his ethnicity, he could not get police or judicial protection. He was one of the founders of a regional party, Dalmatian Action. After a bomb was thrown into the party headquarters, its own leaders were accused of having planted it, and they were arrested. Miro Bogdanović was amongst them. He spent more than two months in prison, where he was mistreated. A restaurant that he owned, Stefanel, where some people from Split who didn't agree with the dominant politics gathered, had a bomb planted in it. In 1993, after he was released from prison, he was forced to sell the restaurant. A new restaurant that he subsequently opened was also destroyed during the war and post-war years in Split, and Miro Bogdanović himself was subject to threats and attacks. He still lives in Split.