Nikola Miljević was born in 1951 in the village of Šibine, near to Glina. His family suffered during the Second World War. His maternal grandfather was killed in the massacre in Prekopa in May 1941, and his paternal grandfather was killed in Jadovno. His father was a member of the Partisans; in 1943 he was captured and sent to a camp in Germany. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb. Most of his working life during Yugoslavia was spent in managerial positions. He was a member of the SKJ [League of Communists of Yugoslavia]. He lived in Sisak until July 1991, when he left for Moravice in Gorski Kotar, together with his family. In September of the same year, he was notified anonymously that his brother had been killed near Topusko. That was when his search for his brother’s remains started, a search that lasted for 70 days. During that time, he saw many dead and many burnt out homes in the area of Banija and Kordun. He found his brother’s remains on November 8, 1991. Since connections with the rest of Croatia were severed by that time, he was forced to stay on the territory of SAO Krajina [Serbian Autonomous Oblast of Krajina]. After Operation Storm, he left with the column of refugees for Serbia. He was separated from his family, who stayed in Moravice, until 1997, when he returned to Croatia and acquired Croatian citizenship. Today he lives in Glina and is active in the Serbian National Minority Council in Glina.