Oliver Ivanovi

Oliver Ivanović was a Kosovo Serb politician. He was assassinated by unknown perpetrators on 16 January 2018 in North Mitrovica. He served as the State Secretary of the Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija from 2008 to 2012 and was also a member of the Coordination Center for Kosovan Serbs from 2001 to 2008. His party Democratic Alternative (DA) merged into the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and he together with Nebojša Čović became one of the party's leaders. In March 2004, a violent unrest in Kosovo broke out, in which Kosovo Albanians took part in wide-ranging attacks on the Kosovo Serbs minority. The Government of Kosovo consisted of Serbian representatives fell soon after. In July 2008, all Serbs boycotted the Assembly of Kosovo, which declared Kosovo's independence from Serbia. In a meeting by 109 of the total 120 MPs attended by 109 Serbs, all 11 of the Serbs joined the Serb minority, while all other representatives joined the Albanian minority. In the same year, he became the leader of the Metohije List.