The Youth Initiative for Human Rights organised an online conversation with Jasminko Halilović, founder and director of the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo. Jasminko Halilović talked about how the War Child Museum was founded, as well as the beginnings of the work on the culture of remembrance of the war childhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the work that the Museum originated from.
Today we mark the 28th anniversary of the crime in Strpci, when members of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) took out and killed 20 passengers, non-Serb civilians, at a train station in Strpci (BiH) from a train running on the Belgrade-Bar route.Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Serbia (YIHR Serbia) and Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Montenegro (YIHR CG) recall the responsibility of state institutions of Serbia and Montenegro for this planned war crime against the citizens of FRY and demand that full responsibility be established – not only of the perpetrators but also of the originators of this crime, as well as to speed up investigations and court proceedings in both countries. Also, the families of victims in Serbia continue to be discriminated in terms of the status of civilian victims of war, while in Montenegro no one but Nebojša Ranisavljević has been prosecuted.
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the crimes against civilians on the Nis Express bus in Livadice near Podujevo, when 12 Serb civilians were killed and 10 others wounded.
The Coalition for Access to Justice hereby requests from the Government of the Republic of Serbia to remove without delay the shortcomings in its work on amending the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance (hereinafter referred to as: LFAIPI), by ensuring that the work on drafting of the Law will be taken over by the competent Ministry for Human Rights alongside equal participation of experts, media representatives, associations and others, in accordance with the Law on the Planning System.
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights organised an online lecture titled ‘Srebrenica Genocide Through Intercepted Conversations’. The lecture was delivered by Nemanja Stjepanović. He presented the participants with the intercepted conversations between the highest military and political officials of Republika Srpska in July 1995, which were used as evidence at the trials before the ICTY.
