Photo credits: Vladan Đukanović   We often treat social media as something new and even unknown, despite it having been part of our lives for over a decade. Ever since it made its explosive debut in the Balkans, it has been a space for discussions around dealing with the past and reproducing existing content in new forms. “15 February 1924 […]

In November 1992, my father was killed. I was four years old, and just as any other daughter, I adored my father. He participated in the war that happened in our region and he fought in the belief that he was saving his country, his people, his children. I remember the day when they let my mother know that the […]

Photo: Jelena Diković   On the day when the state of emergency was introduced in Serbia, the Danas daily editor-in-chief introduced the state of emergency in our editorial office, as well. He forbade all the journalists to come to the office, while the entire, so-called technical work is to be done by the editors. We work online by making daily […]

The action takes place two weeks after COVID-19 arrives in Bosnia and Herzegovina. "Are there any flours in the shops?" "None. Missing in Bingo shop, not even in Konzum shop. " "Did I say ten days ago that food supplies should be made?" (angry voice) "But Mom … There’s really no need. They said that the delivery of basic foodstuffs […]

Every time I knock on the doors of families of the missing, the experience is unique. Every repeated knock is accompanied by the conscious fear that I am about to reopen old wounds. The latest experience was not any different than the other times when I have tackled this topic.   Some months ago, I went to meet Ajshe Shehu, […]

Photo: Media Center Belgrade Translation: Luna Đorđević The previous year hasn’t brought many changes when it comes to dealing with the past in Serbia. Everything mostly stayed the same – the inactivity of the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor, the non-existence of a clear commitment from the government to finally deal with the violent past and the continuation of […]

While in a second it seemed that the ‘invisible enemy’ in BH did not choose between ethnicities, and that now, all Serbs and Bosniaks and Croats have a common enemy or danger – but, that second evaporated before sparking enough to feel any unity. ‘We haven’t learned anything,’ I heard somewhere. ‘All this is reminiscent of war,’ I also heard. […]

A few days ago we were talking with a friend about a family culture of remembrance, and about the conspiracy of silence that exists in almost all families, that is, there is a tacit agreement not to discuss family war. She pointed out that the only time her mother talked about it was when she told her that in all […]

On the night of April 4 – 5, 1992, the siege of the city of Sarajevo, one of the longest-standing sieges in modern war history, began and lasted until February 29, 1996. Sarajevo was under siege for 1,425 days and 13,952 people were killed during the four years, or 14.54% of the total human loss in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A […]

It seemed to me that after 30 and a few years of journalistic practice, nothing could astonish me, but wow! When I visited Banja Luka’s Correctional Institution, better known as the Tunjice Prison. The head of the department responsible for educational work with prisoners took me to the workshop in which Christian prisoners, in a Christian way, make icons in […]

Regarding the publication Naming War Crimes by their Real Name Legal regulation of the prohibition of denial, minimizing, justification or approval of genocide, Holocaust, crimes against humanity or war crimes Almost twenty-five years after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement, Bosnia and Herzegovina is still perceived as a country in transition. In addition, it should also be emphasized that […]

Photo by:  tacno.net / With Study: NAMING WAR CRIMES BY RIGHT NAME Legal regulation prohibiting the negation, denial, minimizing, justification or approval of genocide, Holocaust, crimes against humanity or war crimes. Authors: Lejla Gačanica and Caroline Finkeldey. Publisher: forumZFD – TRIAL International, Sarajevo, December 2019. Written by: Nerzuk Ćurak Although the pandemic of the Corona virus has greatly reduced people’s […]