The Government of Republika Srpska has been organising a central commemoration event dedicated to victims of Jasenovac and the Independent State of Croatia* over the past twenty years in Donja Gradina, the largest site of suffering of the Ustasha concentration camp Jasenovac. This was the case on April 27 of this year, too. Author: Milkica Milojević As always, the President […]

Thirty-three years have passed since the crimes committed in Grabovica (Kotor Varoš). The families of tortured, missing and killed persons are still facing an institutional barrier: they are prohibited from visiting the site of killing and last whereabouts of their family members.   The decision taken at the end of October by the Police Station Kotor Varoš details the reasons […]

The Roma community in North Macedonia is the most marginalized community that has been dealing with serious problems for decades, from socio-economic problems, all the way through problems with education, discrimination, access to all rights and services, poor living conditions, and what not!? According to the latest census in North Macedonia (2021), the total population is 1,836,713 inhabitants, of which […]

Built at the beginning of the 16th century, completely destroyed at the beginning of the war in the 1990s, the Dugalića Mosque at the centre of Nevesinje was reconstructed.   Author: Miljan Kovač The last in a series of 12 destroyed mosques in this municipality should be officially opened as soon as the next summer. Final works are underway.   […]

Author: Edvin Kanka Ćudić Ana and Vasilj Lavrov were arrested in October 1993. They were Ukrainians by ethnicity, married and living in Sarajevo. They were executed by the members of the Tenth Mountain Brigade of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In November of the same year, they were exhumed from the pit in Kazani and buried […]

The European Commission recently released its annual progress reports — an ideal moment to pause and reflect on where the Western Balkans stand on their path toward European integration. Despite the title, this text is not written to pin the blame on Brussels. While colonial continuities and paternalistic frameworks do exist in the way the European Union (EU) approaches the […]