Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU Memorandum), 1986.

The Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU Memorandum) is a draft document made by a committee of 16 members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 1985 to 1986. The memorandum is divided into two parts: “The crisis of the Yugoslav economy and society” refers to the economic and political divisions in Yugoslavia that followed the adoption of the 1974 constitution and “The position of Serbia and the Serbian people” describing the inferior status of the SR Serbia in the SFRY and the position of Serbs in SR Croatia and SAP Kosovo.

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Language: Serbian, English

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BORIS DEŽULOVIĆ ABOUT SAYING FAREWELL TO A FRIEND: Miro Bogdanović was the bravest man in the city!

The commemoration of Miro Bogdanovic, a famous Split caterer who in the 1990s, because of his blood count being deemed undesirable by the “appropriate authority”, was repeatedly beaten up, imprisoned and marked undesirable in the city in which he was born.

Availability: http://lupiga.com/vijesti/boris-dezulovic-u-oprostaju-od-prijatelja-miro-bogdanovic-bio-je-najhrabriji-covjek-u-gradu

Language: Croatian

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Ante Lešaj: Bookocide – the destruction of books in Croatia in the 1990s

Ante Lešaje’s research was published in 2012 in cooperation with the publishing house Profil and the Serbian National Council. The main theme of the book is the write-off / destruction of “unsuitable” books from Croatian public libraries since the early 1990s. According to his research, there are almost 2.8 million books or 13.8 percent of the total material in libraries. Removed were the books for which the inappropriateness was determined on the basis of political and ethnic reasons (socialism, communism, NOB, works by Serbian and Montenegrin writers, etc.).

Availability: PDF: http://snv.hr/file/attachment/file/knjigocid.pdf

Language: Croatian

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Robert Donia, “From the Assembly of the Republic of Srpska 1991-1996”, excerpts from the presentation of the Republika Srpska MPs as evidence at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, University Press, Sarajevo-Tuzla 2012.

The book by American historian Robert Donia brings transcripts of parliamentary speeches, as well as the statements of the top executives of the Republika Srpska. This material was mostly used as evidence at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, where Donia, as an expert, repeatedly carried out expertise and testimony.

Availability: www.helsinki.org.rs/serbian/doc/Donia%20StSi-BCSDT.doc

Language: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian

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