Milan Bulajic was born September 26, 1928 in Vilusi, Montenegro. His father Krsto was a teacher, and his grandfather Todor was a standard-bearer of the Montenegrin Army and National Deputy. As a boy of 13, Milan joined Partisans in 1941 and ended the war with a rank of captain.

He graduated from the Belgrade Faculty of Law (1951) and earned a master's degree from the Graduate School for Journalism and Diplomacy (1952) and a PHD in International Law and History of Diplomacy. ("The Right of Self Determination," 1953).

He was Observer for Yugoslavia in Extradition proceedings against Nazi-UstashaMinister of Interior Andrija Artukovic before the District Court for Southern California, Los Angeles (1958); Amicus Curiae at the trial of the Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann, Jerusalem (1961); expert witness at trials against Ustashi terrorists for the attack on the Yugoslav Military Mission, West Berlin (1970), Ustashi assassins of the Yugoslav Ambassador Vladimir Rolovic, Stockholm (1971); Ustasha Andrija Artukovic, Zagreb (1986) and before the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (case of Slavko Dokmanovic), The Hague (1997) and at the trial against Dinko Shakich, former commander of Jasenovac (1999).

He was in the Yugoslav Diplomatic Service from 1949 until 1987 as the Legal Adviser in the Federal Secretariat for Foreign Affairs, as First Secretary, Embassy, Washington, DC; and as Minister Counselor, Embassy, Jakarta, Indonesia.

He is the author of some 60 books, including The Right to Self Determination (1963), Principles of International Development Law (1986), Ustashi Crimes Of Genocide (4 volumes), Trial of Andrija Artukovic (1989), Tudjman's Jasenovac Myth, Mission of Vatican in the Independent State of Croatia (1992), Break-up of the Yugoslav State 1991/1992 - A Crime Against Peace (1994), The Role of Vatican in the Break-up of the Yugoslav State, Jasenovac: What Happened?, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC (1996), Shakich Trial – Belated Yugoslav (Croatian) Nurenberg, Wisenthal Center, Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles (1997), Jasenovac - Ustasha Death Camps - 'Serbian Myth?' (1999), Jasenovac on Trial - The Case of Dinko Shakich (2001), Balkan Auschwitz (2001).