Map of Unmarked Sites of Suffering in BiH Presented in Banja Luka
On 21 July 2020, the peace initiative Marking Unmarked Sites of Suffering (ONMS) and the Centre for Nonviolent Action Sarajevo-Belgrade presented their activities and website in Banja Luka, with documentation on actions to mark unmarked sites of suffering related to the 1992-1995 war in BiH.
Activists mark sites of suffering in Central Bosnia and around Sarajevo
With the support of the Centre for Nonviolent Action, in June 2020, a group of activists continued their activities to mark unmarked sites of suffering in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Five sites were marked: Hotel Igman and Hotel Maršal, Bilivode near Zenica, Miletići near Travnik and the site of the attack against the Tuzla Convoy of Salvation near Novi Travnik.
We joined White Armband Day and attended commemorations in Vitez and Mostar
We continued our activities, while abiding by the relevant recommendations regarding the pandemic.
The Enemy Within (thoughts about Victims and Camps)
We were taught about the Second World War in school, we watched films, read books. We expect there to be a consensus, at least about the basics. The Holocaust, the casualties of the Second World War, the reign of fascism and the horrors of destruction left in its wake are (mostly) not disputed. However, if we can agree on that, why can’t we commemorate this properly, by commemorating victims and the places where lives were taken?
Fourth Regional Short Story Contest Biber
Authors writing in Albanian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Croatian or Serbian are eligible to enter. The contest is open until 1 December 2020.
Handbook “Nonviolence!” published in Macedonian and Albanian
Our handbook Nonviolence! Peacebuilding Training Handbook by Ivana Franović and Nenad Vukosavljević, is now available in Albanian and Macedonian translation
A REPORT THAT SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN WRITTEN: They used to shoot at each other, now they donate blood for their “enemies”
Lupiga.com about war veterans action in Prijepolje in february 2020.
I do not have two hearts, one for hatred and one for love
It is the greatest sorrow, because it is mine, said Nail Kajević on the 27th anniversary of the murder of his brother Nijazim Kajević, one of the twenty passengers taken from the Lovćen 671 train in Štrpci on 27 February 1993.
Sites of Memory about the Crimes of the Junta in Argentina
Publication about sites of memory related to the crimes committed by the junta during their dictatorship in Argentina.
Map of unmarked sites of suffering in BiH presented in Sarajevo
The peace initiative Marking Unmarked Sites of Suffering (ONMS) and the Centre for Nonviolent Action Sarajevo-Belgrade presented their activities and website with documentation on actions to mark unmarked sites of suffering related to the 1992-1995 war in BiH.
Biber 03
Collection of short stories selected through the third Biber Contest is published.
War veterans from the region paid their respects to civilian victims taken from the train in Štrpci
Veterans of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH), the Croat Defence Council (HVO), the Croatian Army (HV), the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS), the Army of Yugoslavia (VJ) and the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA), together with activists from the Centre for Nonviolent Action Sarajevo/Belgrade, took part in the commemoration in Prijepolje and honoured the civilians killed after they were taken off the train in Štrpci, expressing their solidarity and support for the families of the victims and calling for the prosecution of those responsible and for finding the remains of the victims.
Commemoration in Skelani near Srebrenica: When does the solitude of mourning end?
For a number of years, at the Centre for Nonviolent Action (CNA), we have been trying to find ways for our group of war veterans to join the commemoration dedicated to Serb civilians and soldiers killed in Skelani in the Srebrenica Municipality and together honour these victims who were killed on 16 January 1993.
Dialogue with the devil
Would you speak to your enemy? – published by FriEnt originally
Nothing but misery
An informal group of activists, with the support of CNA, so far has marked more than 80 unmarked sites of suffering. This text presents reflections on actions to mark unmarked sites of suffering in Bosnia and Herzegovina related to the war period from 1991 to 1995.