Adriatik Kelmendi, BIA, RECOM The RECOM Reconciliation Network calls on the Intelligence Agency (BIA) of the Republic of Serbia to refrain from all further situations and actions that threaten the freedom of political expression and freedom of movement and activism concerned with confronting  the past and reconciliation in the region. For the past several years, on every […]

On the sidelines of The Hague Peace Conference on Yugoslavia, in November 1991, the Prime Minister of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), Ante Marković, accused President of Serbia, Slobodan Milošević, of shelling Dubrovnik. Milošević denied that Dubrovnik was shelled, and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman supported him in that.    The video is part […]

General Pavle Strugar is the only one of the four indicted officers of the former Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) who was tried for the shelling of Dubrovnik before the International Criminal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The indictment against Admiral Milan Zec was withdrawn due to a lack of evidence, Captain Vladimir Kovačević was declared […]

In his first appearance before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, in November 2001, Admiral of the former Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) Miodrag Jokić pleaded not guilty to crimes committed by forces under his command in Dubrovnik in 1991. In August 2003, Jokić however, entered a plea agreement with the Prosecution, pleaded guilty […]

According to the report of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments in Dubrovnik, prepared in cooperation with UNESCO, of the 824 buildings in the Old Town, 563 were hit in 1991 and 1992 shelling. Six buildings were completely destroyed in the fires, 438 roofs were damaged by direct hits, and another 262 by […]

SENSE Transitional Justice Center presents an exhibition of photographs by Pavo Urban documenting the shelling of Dubrovnik in 1991, including the shots taken on December 6, 1991, during the heaviest artillery attack on the city, when the young artist lost his life. https://www.pavourbanexhibit.sensecentar.org/

The shelling of the Old City of Dubrovnik was qualified in International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)  indictments and judgments as the “destruction or deliberate damaging of institutions dedicated to religion, charity and education, arts and science, historical monuments, and works of art and science.” The video is part of the interactive narrative […]

How the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) investigated, reconstructed, and prosecuted the intentional destruction of cultural and historical monuments during the 1991-1999 wars of Yugoslav Succession, which was the greatest destruction of cultural heritage in Europe since World War Two. The video is part of the interactive narrative “Targeting History and Memory” […]

The Association for Social Research and Communication (UDIK) reminds the public of the 28th anniversary of the Kazani pit killings. Although 28 years have passed since the monstrous crimes at Kazani pit on Mountain Trebević, we still testify that the crimes committed by the forces of Mušan Topalović (nicknamed „Caco“), commander of the 10th Mountain Brigade of […]

The Association for Social Research and Communication (UDIK) from Sarajevo and Woman’s Voice – Priboj remind the public of the 29th anniversary of the abduction and murder of civilians from the village of Sjeverin (Priboj, Serbia). The Sjeverin massacre took place on October 22, 1992 when members of the Serbian paramilitary unit under the command […]