The crime named “Abduction in Štrpci” took place on 27 February 1993 when members of the Serbian paramilitary unit under the command of Milan Lukić, with the logistical support from the Republic of Serbia, kidnapped a group of passengers from Belgrade – Bar train at Štrpci station near Višegrad, on Bosnian territory. They kidnapped and […]

The Association for Social Research and Communication (UDIK) reminds the public of the 28th anniversary of the suffering of Sarajevo civilians who were killed on February 05, 1994 at Markale (marketplace) by the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) during the siege of the Sarajevo in the Bosnian war. The first massacre occurred between 12:10 and […]

About the project SENSE Agency and its successor, SENSE Transitional Justice Center, reported on the work of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) from 1998 to 2019. Throughout this period, SENSE has assembled a compilation of over fifty video interviews with the main actors of the ICTY history. Successively publishing these […]

Remembrance policies were in the hands of oligarchs using them for manipulation and glorifying convicted war criminals, said RECOM Reconciliation Network coordinator Natasa Kandić on 17 December. “The glorification has risen to such heights that public spaces across the states of former Yugoslavia are filled with respect for people convicted of war crimes, genocide or […]

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 The indictment against Admiral Milan Zec was withdrawn due to a lack of evidence, Captain Vladimir Kovačević was declared […]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/