A lost childhood cannot be brought back, but what we can fix is the present and we can fight for a better future. When I travel abroad and meet new people, the first thing they ask is: – What is it now like in Bosnia and Herzegovina? The last time I did not know how to respond. It would be […]

The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina happened 22 years ago, but it was followed only by the absence of arms, because the war is still here, among us, around us, and what is the worst thing, among the youth. Institutional suppression of responsibility    The overall educational system in Bosnia and Herzegovina is based on showing only one story, without […]

Author: Nidžara Ahmetašević If you search the term ”Vilina Vlas” on Google, you will get schizophrenic results. In addition to official links for the rehabilitation centre Vilina Vlas in Višegrad, there is an alternating list of links promoting this tourism location and of links containing texts about the war crimes committed in this place in 1992. The page Trip Advisor recommends […]

An average nationalist is no longer a toothless, bearded prototype from the beginning of the 90s. His profile ”evolved” from its 20-something-year old caricature. A nationalist from Banja Luka – the ”upgraded version” is 30-something years old, can barely remember the war, but was raised in the spirit of nationalism at home and was primarily instilled ”the feeling of being […]

Author: Jelena Jevđenić, culture editor of the portal Impuls   When there is a war, or when someone writes about war, or when someone looks back to war in times of peace, the key figure is a man. Women are invisible in war, as if they were not part of it, and they are actually very much part of it. […]

Author: Jelena Jevđenić, culture editor of the portal Impuls What memories does a person have, who spent his/her childhood in war? Psychologists claim that the first years of life are a period when we adopt numerous experiences, which, however, then get forgotten. Pre-school age is not remembered by a child, unless it is related to strong emotions or a particular […]

AUTHOR: MIRJANA TRIFKOVIĆ When someone asks me where I am from, I only smile and tell them the place where I am currently living, which is easier. I guess that from a very early age on I learned not to get attached to cities, only to people, and there were many of both of them. When the war started, I […]

In this city, people are able to say a lot with just a few words. Sometimes they do not even need words. Sarajevo quietly tells its stories, about people that have a soul. ***** My father was a craftsman, a master craftsman. He had a radio and TV repair shop at the OZ passageway in Titova street. Next to my […]

If anyone ever had any doubts at all, things are now more than clear: the rehabilitation of Chetniks, the introduction of Dražo Mihailović in school textbooks, where he – as an ‘anti-fascist’ – shares a page with Josip Broz Tito on equal terms, the rehabilitation of the slaughterer Nikola Kalabić, the ongoing process or rehabilitation of the quisling Milan Nedić, […]