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<\/p>\nYouth Initiative for Human Rights representative Fiona Jeli\u0107i said at the award ceremony at the Centre for Cultural Decontamination that the mass grave in Batajnica is not talked about and nothing is known about the victims, that the mass grave in Batajnica does not exist in our public space \u2013 it is absent from both conversation and memory, while Glavoni\u0107 is one of those who stood up against it, loudly and articulately.<\/p>\n
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The award winner Ognjen Glavoni\u0107 thanked for the award and said that \u201cpeople who expose themselves as young people at the Initiative do are to face insults, violence and agression<\/em>\u201d, for which reason he proudly accepteed the award as his manifestation of support.<\/p>\n The \u201cMir\u00ebdita, dobar dan\u201d Festival Award was introduced three years ago and is awarded to individuals and institutions that build special relations between Serbian and Kosovo society.<\/p>\n Besides the award ceremony, on the last day of the festival, the visitors had an opportunity to attend and take part in the debate \u201cTransitional Justice in Kosovo Today\u201d, focused on the memory of victims of war in Kosovo, individual responsibility and prosecution of war crimes, as well as of finding missing persons.<\/p>\n Besart Lumi, political analyst and author of \u201cDemocratisation of Transitional Justice: Towards Deliberated Infrastructure for Dealing with the Past in Kosovo\u201d said that Kosovo still struggles difficulties with regard to dealing with the past, and that problems of absence of information on what happened during the war and on missing persons still prevail.<\/p>\n \u201cAll ethnic groups should be included and all information should be gathered. It is very important that there is an initiative to talk about the past and then see how the transitional justice strategy should look like<\/em>\u201d, said Lumi.<\/p>\n Jovana Radosavljevi\u0107 from Kosovska Mitrovica-based New Social Initiative said that Serbs in Kosovo have never been part of negotiations nor have they sit at the negotiating table, and that they do not feel included in Kosovo institutions, although they are in part integrated.<\/p>\n \u201cThe reason why Serbian community does not trust Kosovo institutions is because Kosovo institutions themselves do not comply with Kosovo laws<\/em>\u201d, stressed Radosavljevi\u0107.<\/p>\n She said that attempts to deny the heritage of the Serbian Orthodox Church and declare it the heritage of Kosovo is very problematic.<\/p>\n Nora Ahmetaj, activist from Pri\u0161tina, said that the citizens of Kosovo should move forward and that the truth about victims should be demanded, regardless of their ethnic origin.<\/p>\n \u201cThe majority of the<\/em> Albanian community is of the opinion that an apology from Serbia would soften the relations. On the other hand, young people from Serbian community say that crimes are individual and that those responsible for the crimes should be held responsible<\/em>\u201d, said Ahmetaj and added that a data base should be made from which young people would learn about what happened in the past so that similar situations never repeat.<\/p>\n The Festival was closed by actor Tristan Halilaj reading excerpts from his book \u201cRichard Gere Was Here\u201d, a collection of stories originally published in Serbian language. For the end, the audience will have an opportunity to watch the film \u201cAga\u2019s House\u201d, to be screened at the Centre for Cultural Decontamination.<\/p>\n Inspiration for the festival \u201cMir\u00ebdita, dobar dan!\u201d is Bekim Fehmiu, a famous Albanian, Kosovo, Belgrade, Yugoslav, and world actor, a symbol of unity and division, and the possibility of connecting two cultural spaces into a single whole. <\/p>\n A unique \u201cMir\u00ebdita, dobar dan!\u201c Festival that has been taking place in Belgrade since 2014, is organised by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights and Civic Initiatives from Belgrade and Integra from Pri\u0161tina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Festival \u201cMir\u00ebdita, dobar dan!\u201d ended with prize award to director Ognjen Glavoni\u0107 who, through his movies \u201cDepth 2\u201d and \u201cThe Load\u201d, broke \u201cthe shameful oath of silence\u201d about a mass grave in Batajnica, and thus made a huge step in bringing Serbian and Kosovo societies closer to each other.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/yihr.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ognjen-glavonic-miredita.jpg\")
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