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The Danger of Silence

Photo: Igor Jeremić “To remember a crime, name its perpetrators and show respect for the victims in a dignified way, is our responsibility. But being aware of that responsibility lies at the center of our national identity”. This was a statement of the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel during her visit to the largest Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz in Poland. Since […]

“New time” for the Missing from Kosovo

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18 YEARS LATER

Gravesites far away from the courtrooms

The challenges of searching for missing persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Eldar Jahić Around 35,000 people went missing during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Most were civilians or soldiers who were captured and killed as victims of war crimes. Since the war ended, institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) have found and identified nearly 28,000 of the missing. This provided families with some clarity on the circumstances surrounding the disappearances, […]

Once Upon a Time and Never Again: Commemorating the missing and killed children from the war in Kosovo

Foto: Majlinda Hoxha, Interview with Dea Dedi Once Upon a Time and Never Again is currently being exhibited at the Documentation Centre of Kosovo (DCK) in Prishtina, Kosovo. DCK isa project of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) Kosovo, a local organization that has been collecting data on human rights violations since 1997. Established in 2017, DCK is an exhibition and […]

A lifetime of searching for the Missing

Foto: Arsim Gerxhaliu Arsim Gerxhaliu In 1994, I decided to study forensics in Prishtina, unaware that I would live through a war. Since 1989, Kosovo had been suffering from Serbia’s violent measures, and all Albanians were excluded from public institutions, including schools and colleges. We taught students in a parallel system, in private homes using slides. This lasted until 1999. […]

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA’S EFFORTS AT RECONCILIATION AND DEALING WITH THE PAST

ORAL STATEMENT BEFORE THE SECURITY COUNCIL OF THE UNITED NATIONS ON 5 NOVEMBER 2019 BY SELMA KORJENIĆ, HEAD OF PROGRAM AT TRIAL INTERNATIONAL IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Thank you Madam President, and good morning from Sarajevo! Madam President, Excellences, ladies and gentlemen, My name is Selma Korjenić, and I am Head of Program at TRIAL International in Bosnia and Herzegovina, […]

Can over there become over here?

The past defines the present that we live in Our country is trapped, we have no understanding of democracy, our society is poisoned, our educational system is degraded, our legal system is inefficient, our minorities are discriminated, and the media is under constant attack. As I sit and read the news about events which occupy the public’s attention, I can’t […]

Prishtina Walks

As researchers in the guise of cartographers, we set out to map the stories of Pristina citizens that capture the history of the city in the past one hundred years. Having conducted twenty-nine oral history interviews, as well as having consulted over one hundred interviews from the Oral History Kosovo digital archive (oralhistorykosovo.org) and other public and privately owned photographic […]

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