For several years, Albanians faced continuous occupation and violation of the rights to work, freedom of language, gathering, music, and moving. However, this became worse under the oppressive policies of Milošević’s regime. In 1998, the situation went from bad to worse. The Serbian police and armed forces started massacring civilians, raping women, burning villages, and perpetrating other crimes in Kosovo. […]

Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Sciences To better understand the developments in Macedonia on the eve of and during the Yugoslav wars, the reader will benefit from a brief overview of the Macedonian 1980s and, pretty ahistorically, the subsequent decade or the 1990s. Starting from the latter one and the critical turning point of 1991, it is […]

Just a cursory glance at the available data concerning the anti-war movement during the breakup of Yugoslavia, between 1991 – 1999, will almost force upon us a conclusion that it was, for the most part, initiated and carried out by women. To support of this claim it is worthwhile to highlight the women who deserve to be named, not only […]

Regardless of how conflicts are solved, people in these areas will continue to live together. We all need peace; therefore, we must work on developing the democracy and achieving economic, social, and ecological well-being. Our interests are the same; war and violence harm everyone. From the Charter of the Anti-war Campaign This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the launch […]

One war had already ended (Slovenia, June 1991) and another was taking place in Croatia. We had already seen the fall of Dubrovnik, Vukovar, and the procession of refugees when the testing of barricades in the city began in Sarajevo and the civil protests erupted because of that on 5 April 1992. Even though everything indicated that Bosnia and Herzegovina […]

May 1988. The square outside the “Boska” department store. The square named after Edvard Kardelj, one of the most important and famous politicians from the socialist era, and a close associate of Josip Broz Tito. According to the estimates made back then by the media, around 40,000 Banja Luka residents gathered there, eagerly awaiting the arrival of FC “Borac”, the […]

As Europe established regional organizations to enforce standards of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, the expectations were that mass atrocities akin to those that happened in WWII would not be repeated on the European continent. Yet, 40 years after WWII, Europe was again struck by the mass violence, this time in the former Yugoslavia. Europe was unprepared […]

The end of World War II led to the fulfilment of the long-standing dream of the Macedonian people to establish their own state. The first Macedonian state was proclaimed at the First Session of ASNOM – the Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia. The Presidium (Presidency) of ASNOM was also elected at that session, with Metodija Andonov-Chento as […]

This article aims to bring to the spotlight the approach of textbooks for elementary and secondary schools in both Kosovo and Serbia, as approved by the respective ministries of education, on the developments in Kosovo along the timeframe of almost one century (1912-2000). The purpose is to compare descriptions provided in these historiography writings, to unfold the similarities and differences. […]

There is a constant, unspoken but implied designation of history both as a science and as teaching subject that it should be subjected to a constant review. This designation turned postulate is taken for granted both by the genuine scientists and researchers, and by the teachers, as well as by the democratic societies and states in general. The impulse for […]

Fourteen years after the adoption of the 2006 Rehabilitation Act, it is still a struggle to find a competent court in Serbia that has not been passing rulings as per the said Act.[1] However, the special focus of this article is on the work of the District Court in Šabac. First of all, the District Court in Šabac was one of […]