Rudolf Arapović
Rudolf Arapović (December 8, 1937 – August 3, 2007) was a Croatian writer and dissident who was born in the Central Bosnian town of Busovača and died near Samobor. Biography As a young child, he found himself in the Bleiburg Tragedy, with most of his family being persecuted by the Socialist regime of Yugoslavia. Due to his brother Pero being a part of the Crusaders, Rudolf and his family were interned to the city of Zavidovići where he would attend elementary school. In the city of Visoko, Rudolf Arapović would attend schooling at the Monastery of Saint-Bonaventure during the years 1955 to 1959, graduating and learning Latin in the process. It is noted that the UDBA (Yugoslav Secret police) followed Rudolf during his schooling at Visoko. He would later attend and finish his secondary state schooling between the cities of Travnik and Zagreb. Rudolf would serve a 2-year military obligation in the Serbian cities of Ćuprija and Kragujevac, from 1961 to 1962, before studying Philosophy and German at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb during the years 1962 to 1965. Rudolf was arrested on June 7, 1965, with five other colleagues after anti-Yugoslav protests were held in the city of