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Trebinje. Outraged by the sight, we decide to take revenge on them in some way, approach the counter and decide to take one pair of jeans for ourselves, of course for free. However, at that moment, Srđan Aleksić, who was overseeing the work from a local bar drinking a beer, ran up to the counter. After the exchange of bad words, a physical confrontation ensued when one of Aleksić's colleagues hit him in the head with the butt of a rifle, after which he fell and hit his head on the concrete and never got up again. Therefore, Srđan Aleksić died defending his stall and smuggled goods and not some Alen Glavović, who was not even there at that moment, but ran away. After that we were arrested, then released again and sent to the front. One of the colleagues soon died on the line, while the three of us were later sentenced to 2 years and 4 months in prison, which we served.
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January 21, 1993. I and three others were returning home from the front after three months. While passing through the Trebinje market, we saw Glavović at the counter, whom we knew worked with smuggled goods for Aleksić, who escaped from the front a few months earlier. All sorts of things went
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across the street from the police station, and started harassing and beating him. Glavović was the neighbour of Aleksić; he intervened and went towards them and shouted for them to stop, ending the attack. However, the four soldiers then turned against Aleksić and beat him severely with their rifle
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was renamed after him, 15 years after his death, with the municipality saying "Without people like Srđan Aleksić and his heroic deeds, one would lose hope in humanity, and without it our life would have no meaning". A pass is named after him in Zmaj-Jovo's street in
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