War in Mostar

Documentary produced by the British BBC. British journalists documented daily life in the eastern part of Mostar. The film is a set of testimonies about the war days by Mostar Bosniaks, under continuous shelling, by their neighbors Croats.

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Language: Bosnian, Croatian, English

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Bosnian Book of the Dead – War Losses in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1991 – 1995

Bosnian Book of the Dead (2012) a list of 95,940 names of the killed and missing in the war of ’92 -’95. in Bosnia and Herzegovina, compiled by the Sarajevo Research and Documentation Center, by Mirsad Tokače. In four volumes, the victims were identified by the name and surname, the names of the parents, the date and place of birth, their nationality, the information about whether they are civilians or soldiers, the army to which the soldiers belonged, with the date and place of their death.

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Language: Bosnian

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Circles

“Circles” is a feature film shot in 2013 directed by Srdan Golubovic, written by Srdjan Koljevic and Melina Pota Koljevic. By genre, it is the anti-war melodrama based on a true story about a Serb from Trebinje, Srđan Aleksić, who saved a Bosniak friend from beating, and then starred among his fellow countrymen.

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Language: Serbian

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Coalition for RECOM

Web portal of the Regional Commission for establishing facts about war crimes and other serious human rights violations committed in the territory of the former SFRY from 1 January 1991 to 31 December 2001

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Language: Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Slovenian

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Halima’s road

“Halimin put” is the feature film by director Arsen Anton Ostojic inspired by a true story, written by Feđa Isovic. The film was shot in 2012. The film’s genre is an anti-war melodrama.

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Language: Bosnian

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Bora Radovic: Yugoslav Wars 1991-1999 and some of their social consequences

Radović’s work is the first part of the Monograph “Torture in War, Consequences and Rehabilitation: Yugoslav Experience” and gives a brief overview of the political context of the last stage of the breakup of Yugoslavia. The specifics of Yugoslav wars are described: ethnic cleansing, improvised camps and detention sites, as well as the significant role of paramilitary formations. The work is significant, among other things, because of the author’s attempt to make a list of camps throughout the territory of the former Yugoslavia and a general victim assessment on all battlefields.

Availability: http://www.ian.org.rs/publikacije/tortura/knjigatortura.htm

Language: Serbian

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Aleksandra Zec

The book was created as a project with the play “Aleksandra Zec” by Oliver Frljić premiered in April 2014. The 127 pages chronologically follow events, in text and images, from 1990 to the murder of the Zec family, as well as subsequent documentary and media reports dealing with that case.

Availability: Aleksandra Zec, uz projekt Olivera Frljića, HKD Teatar međunarodni festival malih scena, Rijeka, 2014.

Language: Croatian

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Stories from Vukovar, Sinisa Glavašević

Twenty four short lyrical stories about Vukovar, childhood, friends, life, war and the world surrounding us are the only legacy of the legendary war reporter from Vukovar. They are composed of warm stories about the basic human values that Siniša read to the radio listeners from the besieged city, and at the same time he sent them by fax from the demolished Vukovar to Zagreb just before the fall of the city. The book also contains war reports from Radio Vukovar, a book that should never be circumvented.

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Language: Croatian

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Camp Dretelj a place of untold crime

The former fuel store of the Yugoslav People’s Army in the village of Dretelj near Capljina in the spring of 1992 was turned into a camp. For three years, in this warehouse, in rough and inhuman conditions, about three thousand people were held. For the suffering they survived, to date three people have been sentenced to 18 years in prison.

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Language: Croatian

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