{"id":18601,"date":"2025-04-09T10:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yihr.rs\/?p=18601"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T10:43:52","slug":"street-action-every-step-was-a-risk-marks-the-33rd-anniversary-of-the-siege-of-sarajevo-in-belgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yihr.rs\/en\/street-action-every-step-was-a-risk-marks-the-33rd-anniversary-of-the-siege-of-sarajevo-in-belgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Action &#8220;Every Step Was a Risk&#8221; Marks the 33rd Anniversary of the Siege of Sarajevo in Belgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to data from the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bosnian Book of the Dead<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the Research and Documentation Center (IDC), 13,952 people were killed in the Sarajevo region between 1992 and 1996, including 5,434 civilian casualties. The Association of Parents of Murdered Children in Sarajevo reports that at least 524 children were killed, while IDC data shows that 614 children were killed across ten Sarajevo municipalities, with 77 minors dying while serving as soldiers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The installation consisted of two mirrors and a red thread stretched between them over a distance of about 700 meters. The first mirror was placed at the beginning of \u010cika Ljubina Street, marked with the number one, while the second, at the end of the street, displayed a target and the number 1425\u2014the number of days the Siege of Sarajevo lasted. The concept was for visitors to look into the mirror and see themselves as the target, symbolically putting them in the position of Sarajevo\u2019s citizens, who from April 5, 1992, to February 29, 1996, were constantly exposed to sniper attacks, artillery shelling, and airstrikes. A red thread, representing a sniper\u2019s trajectory as well as the path citizens had to take to avoid becoming targets, stretched between the mirrors, following a zigzag pattern for 1425 steps. At the end of the path, near the mirror with the target, there was a notebook where visitors could record their thoughts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the violence and pressure, students, pupils, and teachers in blockades across Serbia have been continuously protesting for more than five months, demanding justice from the authorities. These protest marches have even extended to Strasbourg, but the question of whether every next step is a risk\u2014for them, their families, and society\u2014remains. On Friday, April 4, which is commemorated as Students\u2019 Day in Serbia in honor of student \u017darko Marinovi\u0107, more than 100 Belgrade citizens walked with us along the red thread in \u010cika Ljubina Street to remember or learn about the lives lost during the war in Sarajevo, which was marked by the siege of the Yugoslav People\u2019s Army and the Army of the Republika Srpska 33 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Military and political leaders from the Republika Srpska were convicted for crimes against humanity during the Siege of Sarajevo by the ICTY and the Mechanism: officers Stanislav Gali\u0107, Dragomir Milo\u0161evi\u0107, and Ratko Mladi\u0107, as well as politician Radovan Karad\u017ei\u0107. High-ranking officials of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Mom\u010dilo Peri\u0161i\u0107 and Slobodan Milo\u0161evi\u0107, were also tried for crimes committed during the siege, but Peri\u0161i\u0107 was acquitted, and Milo\u0161evi\u0107 died before the first-instance verdict was delivered. In addition, several individuals have been held accountable for crimes committed by the Army of BiH in the Sarajevo region under the control of the BiH government. Among those currently on trial in Bosnia are former high-ranking BiH officials, including Ejup Gani\u0107, for crimes committed during the attack on a JNA column in Dobrovolja\u010dka Street in early May 1992.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe terror didn\u2019t end in Sarajevo; it still continues,\u201d wrote Svetlana Marojevi\u0107, one of the passersby who viewed the installation. Composer Ivana Stefanovi\u0107 also visited the installation, describing it as \u201ca heavy, shameful chapter of our lives.\u201d \u201cWithout confronting the truth, there can be no peace,\u201d added another visitor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The aim of this street action was not only to inform and remind the people of Serbia about the Siege of Sarajevo but also to foster empathy for those who lived through or perished during the siege and the entire war in the city. It sought to momentarily put visitors in the position of Sarajevo\u2019s citizens, offering them a glimpse into their experience.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, April 4, 2025, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) unveiled an artistic-activist installation titled \u201cEvery Step Was a Risk\u201d on \u010cika Ljubina Street in Belgrade. 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