25 Years Since the Srebrenica Genocide Don’t deny! Remember!

They talk about that time, about the summer of 1995, when they were children, when they had to pack their toys hastily in order to get themselves into safety from the Serbian troops. The attacks, the fears – the world seemed to stand still for them then. They talk about how it felt at that time when the then so-called UN safe area no longer provided any protection. How it felt when the hopes to get protection from the internationals from the hatred of the advancing Serbs, dissolved into thin air. At that time, when the international community folded in face of the violence overrunning the whole of Bosnia since 1992 and ultimately culminating in Srebrenica. At some point, as reported by one of the survivors, she understood that she did not have a father anymore.  

What is to be concluded from the recent verdicts of the ICTY?

For a couple of days following the acquittals of Croatian Generals Gotovina and Markač and Kosovar KLA units’ leader Haradinaj, various reactions caused for turmoil in the region – torrents of bitter statements from the Serbian side and euphoric outbursts in Croatia and Kosovo, respectively.
Sonja Biserko, Nataša Kandić, Vesna Rakić Vodinelić, Staša Zajović, Milan Antonijević, Drago Kovačević , Vesna Teršelić, Bekim Blakaj

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SREBRENICA GENOCIDE DENIAL REPORT 2020

Rarely, if ever, has a genocide been as normalized as the genocide against the Bosniaks. It is a process which began simultaneously with the genocide itself—not only with the expansive cover-up campaign of its perpetrators, but with the rhetorical onslaught of minimization undertaken by the international community.

Narratives in the Balkans - In the Combat Zone #6

12 October 2018
Published: September 13 2018

Open confrontations in the post-Yugoslav wars gave the advocates of ethno-nationalist ideologies (and their users) plenty of experiences or "proof" which "confirmed" all previous fears and concerns: "they" (another ethnic collective) are "out to get us". The wartime period, as well as post-war years,  have been featured by spreading narratives which concretizes the abstract and empty ideology of ethnicity.
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The Past in the Present

The past is not dead, it is not even past. The countries of the Balkans still suffer from the crimes against humanity, war crimes and predatory privatizations perpetrated during and since the 1990s”. It is urgently necessary to unravel unsolved cases through research and investigative journalism that fosters transitional justice.

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