The Belgrade authorities plan to reconstruct the ‘Judenlager Semlin’ concentration camp, where more than 7,000 Jewish women and children were killed, turning it into a memorial centre.
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Officials have launched a week-long series of events aimed at raising awareness about tolerance, reconciliation and peaceful coexistence between different religious faiths in Kosovo.
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Bosniaks and Bosnian Serbs held rival commemorations of the 21st anniversary of a fierce battle between local security forces and the Yugoslav Army at Brcanska Malta in Tuzla.
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Lawmakers were advised to find different ways of remembering wartime fighters and victims after a series of parliamentary sessions commemorating individual ‘martyrs’.
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Croatian President Ivo Josipovic told a commemoration of the 68th anniversary of a prisoner rebellion at the Jasenovac concentration camp that fascism’s victims must never be forgotten.
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Wartime detainees in Bosnia’s Brcko District have opened a memorial room containing over 1,000 photographs and documents showing crimes against civilians committed in 1992.
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Bosnian youth activists took a bus journey through the country, stopping off at former detention camps along the route, in a bid to raise awareness about war crimes.
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The Hague Tribunal held its Belgrade premier of the documentary film Crimes Before the ICTY: Prijedor, on Thursday.
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A Facebook campaign is calling on mayoral candidates in Skopje to build a memorial to a young ethnic Albanian who was killed while trying to protect his Macedonian friend from attackers.
Ethnic Albanians will construct a huge, 100,000-euro memorial dedicated to rebel fighters who died battling Serbian forces during their 2001 separatist insurgency in the south.
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A street in Rozaje in eastern Montenegro is likely to carry the name of Srdjan Aleksic, a young Bosnian Serb who died defending his Muslim friend in the Bosnian war, media reports say.
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Bosniaks condemned an attack on a memorial plaque in Podgorica that commemorates civilian victims of the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.
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Pristina’s leaders thanked NATO for launching its bombing campaign 14 years ago to end the Kosovo war, and stressed their hope of gaining membership of the military alliance.
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Serbia commemorated its dead 14 years after the NATO air strikes that ended the Kosovo war, but the exact number of people killed has yet to be properly established.
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Ex-Yugoslav states should work together to make sure memorials and commemorations for 1990s conflict victims support reconciliation, experts told a Sarajevo conference.
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