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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]