There’s nothing more horrifying in the recent history of the Balkans than July 1995 and Srebrenica. No matter how you personally choose to define “horrifying,” “recent history,” and the terms “we” and “us.” Almost everyone active in politics and media in the Balkans, among the creators of public opinion, is deeply aware of this fact. Therefore, every abuse of this […]

The Ministry of Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue of the Government of Serbia announced on July 5th that the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance of the Council of Europe adopted the Report on Serbia within the sixth monitoring cycle.

He was an eight-year-old boy when “Sima’s Chetniks” killed nine members of his family: six sisters, a two-year-old brother, father and pregnant mother.

“[…] in Sušica there was me on one side with weapons and a uniform; and on the other side were women my mother’s age, there were children, there were my friends with whom I had spent years in cafes, on sports fields, vacations.” – Dragan Nikolić, ICTY On May 31, 1992, 32 years ago, by order of the commander of […]

It has been thirty years since the closing of the Heliodrom detention camp in Mostar, and I – which is seldomly the case – simply don’t know what to coherently, let alone optimistically, write on the occasion of this anniversary, which in a better world would represent the starting point of a new life and the overcoming of trauma. A […]

For the past two years and two months activists have been fighting to name a street in Banja Luka, a town known as the “city of women,” after an exceptional woman – Vahida Maglajlić. This fight has lasted longer than the wartime journey of this partisan, adorned with the Order of the People’s Hero of Yugoslavia. And it seems it […]

It has now been thirty years since February 5th was marked on Sarajevo’s memory map simply and undeniably as – Markale. Situated in the city center, the green market got its name from the nearby marketplace built during the Austro-Hungarian period (Markt halle). On February 5, 1994, it became the site of an unprecedented massacre. That day 68 residents of […]

In late September, an inscription was written on the memorial plaque in Kazani in huge red letters: Caco lives in us 10 br

For the past few weeks, I have been diligently preparing, almost like a nerd, to write these few dozen lines of thoughts that I had been offered the opportunity to share. In classic historian fashion, this involved studying available sources about those several days in August 1995 and the ensuing consequences. Soon enough, I realized that I had to take […]

Seventy-five years have passed since the world said “never again.” There would never again be a systematic attempt to destroy any ethnic, national, racial, or religious group. Today is July 11th, twenty-eight years after the genocide in Srebrenica, where 8,372 Bosniaks were killed in and around Srebrenica in just a few days. After the signing of the Dayton Agreement, survivors […]

In June, I called both the minister and the chief of staff, and in early July, I pleaded with them. I told them that there is currently a war going on in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the territory of the Croatian state border. Therefore, everything must be done to help maintain that territory. It’s not the same for us whether […]

On this day 30 years ago, one of the cruelest war crimes in the territory of the former Yugoslavia was committed in Ahmici near Vitez. In the early morning hours of April 16, 1993, local Croatian Defence Council units launched an attack on the village. The International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague found that 116 […]