Memorials and Commemorations in Prijedor: Preserving Facts or Entrenching Divisions?
Once a well-known iron ore mine, after 1992, the name Omarska became synonymous with the most notorious detention camp where Bosniaks and Croats from the Prijedor area were tortured and killed.
Tuzla’s Kapija: A Place of Memory and A Crime Awaiting Justice
Powerful verses are engraved at the Kapija Memorial, where, on Youth Day, May 25th, 1995, a massacre was committed against the young people of Tuzla.
Veterans’ Memorials in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Remembrance, Identity, and Division
In Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), monuments and memorials are erected in various places—along main roads, in city squares, next to schools, in cemeteries, on hills overlooking cities, along riverbanks, and on bridges.
Sarajevo Roses: Sites of Memory and Unobtrusive Symbols of Suffering
During the siege of the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina - 1,425 days long, the citizens of Sarajevo were exposed to terror, including shelling and sniper attacks, on a daily basis.
The Anti-fascist Heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina Between Oblivion, Politicization and Physical Decay
In the silence of mountain landscapes and abandoned parks across Bosnia and Herzegovina, monumental concrete forms and abstract sculptures stand as enduring witnesses to one of the most significant periods in European history — the fight against fascism.
Nationalist Rhetoric and Ignorance United in Murals
The mural of Ratko Mladić in Belgrade is one of the most controversial "landmarks" of the city, considering everything that happened around and because of it.