WE DID NOT TORTURE: MORINJ CAMP AND THE POSSIBILITY OF RECONCILIATION IN MONTENEGRO
WE DID NOT TORTURE: MORINJ CAMP AND THE POSSIBILITY OF RECONCILIATION IN MONTENEGRO

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the largely overlooked and deliberately obscured issueof the treatment of Croatian prisoners of war detained at the Morinj Camp inMontenegro during the Yugoslav wars, with particular focus on the 1991–1992siege of Dubrovnik. The study explores the dynamics of selective forgetting inMontenegro and its impact on historical memory and reconciliation. Relyingprimarily on testimonies from former prisoners, limited official documents,and rare archival materials, it highlights the challenges historians face due torestricted access to sources and alleged destruction of key records. The paperargues that the systematic minimization or erasure of evidence by political andmilitary elites still in power perpetuates a dominant narrative of Montenegro’smarginal involvement in the conflict. This not only obstructs historical reckoningbut also impedes regional efforts toward reconciliation. The case of the MorinjCamp thus serves as a revealing lens through which broader issues of postconflictmemory politics and transitional justice in the former Yugoslavia canbe understood.

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