We continued our activities, while abiding by the relevant recommendations regarding the pandemic.
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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.
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.
“Easy Notes” for Difficult Commemorations
The very fact of former enemies attending the commemoration together, paying their respects to victims of all wars, sends the message that we are no longer enemies and that we never want to be enemies again. That the suffering, fear and pain we have all experienced connect us and bring us closer together. That we grieve and empathise with each other’s pain, to ease it, and to make sure it never happens again.
When Ahmići and Trusina Meet
The presence of our mixed group of war veterans from the region at the commemoration in Ahmići on 15 and 16 April 2019 completed a year-long journey along the untrodden paths of memory. Trusina – 16 April 2018 Ahmići – 16 April 2019.
Media: As veterans honour Ahmici victims, activists criticise Croatia’s silence
While veterans from the region were paying their respects for the victims of the 1993 massacre in the village of Ahmici, Croatian activists were criticising their country’s leadership for not participating in the April 16th commemoration.
War Veterans from the Region at the Commemoration in Ahmići: We Need to Remember All Victims
“We are here to show by our presence that we can and must show compassion and respect not just for victims from our own people, but for others too. To show that there is another way. Then we can set the foundations for peace and coexistence in this region, which is our goal. So that our children never have to go through what we went through,” said Krešimir Ivančić, a veteran of the Croatian Army.
Joint Visit by War Veterans to the City of Niš and Participation at the Commemoration in Aleksinac
Since 2008, the Centre for Nonviolent Action, with offices in Sarajevo and Belgrade, has been organising visits by groups of war veterans from Croatia, Serbia and BiH to sites of atrocities against civilians and soldiers committed in the recent war and to official commemorations honouring victims, organised by local and state authorities and victims associations.