The poisoned waters of Gospić’s past and future
DwP – It is estimated that in 1993, during the Medak Pocket operation, nearly 100 people were killed, accompanied by brutal abuse of the victims.
Porfirije and the European Commission race to the bottom
All those turning a war criminal into a new national myth have no dilemmas over who Ratko Mladić was and what crimes he had committed.
No major keys allowed
The Serbian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale has its own alternative scene in the guestbook at the entrance. It reveals visitors’ attitudes toward what official Serbia has to offer today.
A war criminal’s burial
The family’s right to a grave and funeral rites does not negate the question of why a convicted genocide perpetrator is given a public space where private mourning can turn into political commemoration.
In the voting booth
We heard a number of false claims about the alleged necessity of voting booths. For the sake of the citizens and the possible impact on the election result, we are obliged to list those falsehoods.
We’ve lost N1 and Nova, but we have elections
Everything Vučić has rigged in the elections so far, he could have rigged for these ones too. What else was he still missing? I’d say he didn’t have N1 and Nova.
Operation Storm 31 years later
DwP – Given the diametrically opposed ways Operation Storm is commemorated in Croatia and Serbia, can we realistically expect the process of mutual recognition of suffering to continue?
Dirty cleansing
The recent statement by Minister Snežana Paunović that, had she been in Slobodan Milošević’s position in 1998, she would have ethnically cleansed Kosovo, has caused strong condemnation.
Ethnic cleansing and nostalgia
Had she been in Milošević’s place minister Paunović would have cleansed Kosovo of Albanians. Nothing prevents Kosovo from being the heart of Serbia except for the Albanians who live there.
Vladimir Arsenijević beaten
Attempts to discredit everyone fighting for the truth about war crimes and the genocide in Srebrenica are becoming increasingly brutal. We demand immediate and thorough investigation into the assault.
Kirrhic victory
DwP – In Croatia, where public memory of the 1990s has been shaped largely around the identities of victimhood and heroism, it has been difficult to find a place for the memory of Josip Reihl-Kir.
General without decorations
State decorations were stripped from war criminal Branimir Glavaš on the basis of a decision by the High Criminal Court of Croatia, by which Glavaš’s conviction for war crimes became final.
War criminals, distinguished citizens
With the latest report from the Youth Initiative – Nebojša Pavković has gone down in history as the first war criminal buried with the highest military honors in the Alley of Distinguished Citizens.
What we can learn from stories
Our starting point is Serbia suffering under Vučić’s criminal regime. The story must end – and it will end – with the liberation of Serbia from that regime. Its culmination must be elections.
Shameless instrumentalization of death
A month and a half passed since the tragic death of the Faculty of Philosophy student in Belgrade and the unprecedented campaign against professors and students who dared to oppose the authorities.
The unworthy
Members of the High Council of Prosecutors presented an incredible argument: that the published opinion is not the opinion of the Venice Commission. The Minister also resorted to other falsehoods.
News from the cuckoo’s nest
The final killing of media that resist the suffocating stench of tyranny is not an easy task, although no one in the EU would be overly shaken and protests in support of N1 are unexpectedly weak.
Memorializing an unjust past
DwP – International Romani Day provides an opportunity to draw attention to serious human rights violations still affecting the survival and social acceptance of the Romani in Montenegro.
Conversation in Belgrade
Countries that sell arms to Israel are violating international law. Given Serbia’s own recent history of being linked to genocide, it should stand firmly against the genocide taking place in Gaza.
State governed by law and rule of law (for Serbs)
Legal chaos in one Bosnian entity and Kosovo Serbs’ status issues stem from the Serbian government’s discontent with existing borders.
Young people between the past and the future
At the XVII RECOM Forum one panel focused on the student protests in Serbia and explored whether they could move past the wars of the 1990s.
The case has been formed
A disciplinary complaint has been filed against seven Higher Court judges in Belgrade for holding a group of citizens from Kragujevac and Kraljevo in unlawful detention for months last year.
Anniversary of the abduction in Štrpci
Passengers kidnapped from train 671 were not random victims of bandits, but targets of deliberate revenge. They still lack recognition as civilian war victims, and their families remain uncompensated.
Shameful act of concealing a crime
The “Vilina Vlas” hotel in Višegrad, where in 1992 members of various paramilitary groups sexually abused detained women, was promoted at the International Tourism Fair in Belgrade.
Selaković in court – from courage to immunity
The illusion that executive officials face court like any ordinary citizen didn’t last long. The court asked Serbia’s Government to decide if immunity applies.
Under a rock
We need to hide under a rock for a while, Vučić told the Serbs from Davos. Serbia is not facing such a dilemma for the first time. In late 1930s, the Chetniks and the Partisans offered their answers.
In Sweden, they know what happened
The European Handball Federation announced that the scandal involving the playing of Thompson’s song will not be repeated. The Croatian national team persistently insisted on it.
Račak 27 Years Later: Indictment, Facts and Denial
Kosovo’s Special Prosecution has filed an indictment against members of the army and police in Serbia for the killing of at least 42 Albanian civilians.
It can happen anywhere!
The abuse of patriotism, and the substitution of hatred and intolerance for it, is a standard pattern of the radical right everywhere. Examples can be found from Finland to Greece, from Portugal to Poland.
On the values and symbolism of the General Staff building
Its dynamic form and asymmetrical geometry rank this building among the foremost examples of cubist-expressionist architecture in late modernist Europe.
A Sketch for Vučić’s ideology
Secondary pro-regime figures perform better as government ideologues, such as Metropolitan Irinej of Bačka, who in his Christmas interview declared that humanism is a failed ideology.
Specter of Yugoslavia is haunting Croatia
Shocking vulgarity of the HDZ members, led by Prime Minister Plenković, came after they faced massive protests last weekend from people who do not want to live in a fascist society.
