Memory and the memorialisation.
thoughts
Awakening
What started to happen to me at the meetings with veterans and visits to the execution sites in this unfortunate country of ours, had a certain feel of ‘awakening’ to it, in comparison to what I had been going through in the first few years after the war, when I had...
Articles 1997-2008
NEW Dealing with the Past in the Context of Ethnonationalism. The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia by Ivana Franović. Berghof Occasional Paper No. 29, October 2008. Traume devedesetih [The 1990s Traumas], interview with Adnan Hasanbegovic and Nenad...
Shamelessnes of denial
If we lived in a country in which all structures of state and society had a consensus about this
honest attitude, that every person must have their own right, regardless of their name, there
would be less need for citizens to come together to protect themselves or to express their
solidarity in protecting others. Unfortunately, more often than not people realize this only
when they feel injustice on their own skin and see that the others don’t care because they fear
for themselves, and in fact merely hope they are not the next in line.
About tolerance and “hate” speech
"Let the neighbour's cow be safe and sound" * by Helena Rill The changes that have happened after the October 5 of 2000 when the new government was established, after Slobodan Miloševiæ and the old regime had been overthrown, haven't had much effect on hate speech....
About Slobodan Milošević trial
The «great trial» to Slobodan Miloševic, ex-president of Serbia and Yugoslavia, has started on February 12th 2002, almost eleven years since the beginning of the wars in the region of former SFRY, wars whose consequences are still present for all the people from this...
To condemn and (or) to accept
Recent events in Banja Luka and Trebinje, regarding the violent obstruction of rebuilding the destroyed mosques while people were stoned, were not at all unexpected, but on the contrary, gave an overall picture of the situation in BiH. Human rights violation of all...