We conducted the twelfth action to mark unmarked sites of suffering from 6 to 7 October 2020 in the area of Zvornik, Tuzla and Srebrenik.
Culture of Remembrance
People, Not Places
Three stories about people from Bilovode, Zecovo and Prijedor
What Will Prijedor Do with Its Past?
Commemorations in Brisevo and Zecovi, Prijedor 25.07.2020.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.