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 […]

The Association for Social Research and Communication (UDIK) reminds the public of the 29th anniversary of the closure of the Sušica camp near Vlasenica, which was a camp for detaining, torturing, raping and killing Bosniaks from the Vlasenica area. Between May and September 1992, as many as 8,000 Bosniak civilians and other non-Serbs from Vlasenica and the surrounding villages were successively detained in the hangar at Sušica camp. On the occasion […]

This year’s observation of the Day of Remembrance of the Croatian Operation Storm in Serbia, and the celebration of the Croatian state holidays, Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and Day of Croatian Defenders, were marked by messages that have even further reduced the space for self-critical reassessment of the past and acknowledgement of the victims, […]

1.Did the military and police operation codenamed Storm, apart from reintegrating the Krajina territory into the Republic of Croatia’s borders, had a goal to permanently remove the Serb population from those areas of Croatia? The video is a part of the interactive narrative “Storm in The Hague” which covers five key points of contention between […]