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(IN)COMPLETE IMAGES OF THE FEMALE WAR STORY

I was five years old when the war started. I do not remember the images, they are clear, but intermittent. Even today, twenty-two years after the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, I am unable to put them together in a single whole. I remember that immediately before the war I was supposed to start going to swimming […]

Guardian of memories

On a strange day, someone decided to start a war in Sarajevo. Consciously or unconsciously, this changed the fate of all of us who had been born and were living there and nobody asked us about the type of life that we would like to have. The very same Sarajevo that was a cradle of emotions, differences, cultures and warmth […]

Viki

Stories of women survivors of torture during the last war in Kosovo (10/10) My sister, sister-in-law, cousins and I About 17 women were assembled by a group of paramilitaries in a city in Kosova. The most beautiful women from the neighborhood were assembled, according to the witness. They were sent to a school in a nearby village. According to the […]

Civilian victims of wars at the mercy of the state of Serbia

Dževad Koldžić saw his mother for the last time on October 22, 1992. She was hijacked on that day on the way to work to Priboj from the bus that crossed the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Mioče, members of the paramilitary formation ”Avengers”, lead by Milan Lukić, took her and 15 men off the bus. They took them […]

I want to be heard

As of the upcoming Wednesday (Sep. 13, 2017), in the next 10 working days, DwP-Balkans will publish an oral history interview with a survivor of sexual violence each day, taken from the memory book "I want to be heard: Memory book with stories of women survivors of torture during the last war in Kosovo”. The aim of the project is to […]

A movie is a time capsule

Does it penetrate into the human consciousness that when a big war happens, it is always followed by smaller wars? Does the Albanian people ever pause and think that after seeing the blood flooding the alley of horror at the Reçak Massacre, after having been a target of war from another state, after many similar other scenarios, that it went […]

Dealing with the past through gatherings of youth from different post-conflict societies

During the month of July 2017, we had the opportunity to attend a summer school unlike any other neither of us had attended before. The summer school brought together 20 teenagers from ex-Yugoslavian countries, all of whom had the opportunity to learn about the region’s history from different perspectives. The summer school was named “Challenge History”, and it not only […]

‘Men Don’t Cry’: Revealing Balkan Veterans’ Emotions

Source: balkaninsight.com Photo: Deblokada A new feature film made by a Bosnian war veteran dramatically explores the minds of men who fought in the 1990s and how it affected them psychologically and emotionally. Igor Spaic BIRN Sarajevo At a remote hotel in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a group of veterans who fought on opposing sides during the Balkan wars have come together for […]

DESPITE ITS LIMITS, THE ICTY HAS BLAZED A TRAIL FOR VICTIMS’ EMPOWERMENT

Source: trialinternational.org The ICTY may not have brought the desired reconciliation in BiH, but its influence and legacy provides a crucial basis for future endeavors. An op-ed by Selma Korjenic. THE LAST-RESORT TRIBUNAL In 1993, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established in The Hague (Netherlands). Tasked with the prosecution of the highest-ranked suspects from across the […]

New editions of Dealing with the Past and True Stories Market to Be Presented at Sarajevo Film Festival

The Sarajevo Film Festival continues to provide a platform to help shed light on the consequences of the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and for using film to bring important stories related to these events to wider audiences. The aim of the Dealing with the Past and True Stories Market projects is to increase awareness, dialogue and knowledge, and has […]

Journalist associations from the region welcome the arrest of a person who threatened journalist Dragan Bursac

Source: http://safejournalists.net The Western Balkan’s Regional Platform for Advocating Media Freedom and Journalists’ Safety, representing more than 7800 members, strongly condemns death threat to journalist Dragan Bursac and welcomes the prompt reaction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpska, who arrested a person who threatened journalist from Banja Luka. Dragan Bursac was faced with death threats because of his article […]

Memories As a Form of Wounds

As a local from the Prijedor region, I hear a lot of stories of how things were before the conflict of the 1990s, what happened during the war, and how things should be in the distant future. People rarely say what can be done today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. We are caught in a never-ending circle of arguments […]

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