In legal proceedings concerning war crimes, forensic psychiatry is not concerned with explaining the acts themselves or the moral nature of the accused, but exclusively with assessing their sanity and mental state. However, the question of whether perpetrators of crimes are evil by nature or simply ordinary people influenced by social circumstances and authority remains a key theme that links […]

Three decades after the war, Bosnia and Herzegovina continues to face the consequences of an incomplete process of facing its past. Although the war has ended and institutions formally function, society remains burdened by mistrust, differing interpretations of the war legacy, and frequent political misuse of issues that ought to be the subject of responsible and careful public debate. In […]

By Fatmir Menekshe “A Roma neighborhood, but today without Roma people. A once vibrant place, now empty. A place that once laughed, now weeps.” With these words, Azir Jasari, a Roma journalist and researcher from Prishtina, begins his account. Through personal memories, he revisits the history of Moravska, once one of the largest Roma neighbourhoods in Kosovo’s capital, a community […]

by Fisnik Minci In the center of Suharekë, amid the ordinary bustle of a day in May, there is a place marked by a profound and sorrowful silence. For visitors, it creates the impression that time stopped forever in the spring of 1999. The old aluminum doors, forced open and punctured by bullets, remain in their original condition. Faded bloodstains […]

The Serbian public is often confronted with the question of what the most expensive Serbian word is. Yet every year, as July approaches, it becomes clear which three words are truly forbidden. They are the name of a town (Srebrenica), a date (July 11), and a number (8,372). This ban has never been formally proclaimed in any legally binding document, […]

Jehona Hulaj – telegrafi.com During Kosovo’s darkest years, when information was a matter of life and death, journalism was not merely a profession—it was a responsibility, a mission, and a daily risk.  In an interview with Telegrafi, war journalist Vjosa Sadriu-Hamiti reflected on the 1990s, reporting from massacre sites across Kosovo, and the emotional burden carried by journalists covering conflict. […]

Lendrit Qeli – RTV Prosperiteti Survivor Bashkim Ramadani’s Account of the 14 Ashkali and Egyptian Victims Missing Since the Krusha e Madhe Massacre On March 26, 1999, just two days after NATO launched its bombing campaign against Serbian targets, the village of Krusha e Madhe, located approximately 11 kilometers from Rahovec, became the scene of one of the most devastating […]

by Ardita Zeqiri Stranded between traumatic memories and everyday life, many survivors of wartime massacres in Kosovo, continued living inside the houses where their relatives were murdered. In the living room of the Gërxhaliu house, in Studime village in Kosovo’s northern municipality of Vushtrri, the photographs of 13 family members who were murdered by Serbian forces on May 31, 1999, are […]

“The place felt strangely deserted—almost surreal—as if the murders had happened only five years ago. (…) It was devastating. Instead of a tall memorial having stood there for the past thirty years, already weathered by time, with graffiti and murals nearby depicting people embracing in defiance of war, discarded rifles lying on the ground, broken in half, and older generations […]