PAKETI PUNI NADE: BEOGRADSKE AKCIJE PRIKUPLJANJA HUMANITARNE POMOĆI ZA GRAĐANE SARAJEVA (1992–1996)
PACKAGES FULL OF HOPE: BELGRADE ACTIONS OF COLLECTING HUMANITARIAN AID FOR CITIZENS OF SARAJEVO (1992–1996)

Author(s): Andrijana Vlahovljak
Subject(s): Civil Society, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: Građanske inicijative
Keywords: Humanitarian Aid; The Siege of Sarajevo; Anti-War Organizations; ADRA; “Dobrotvor”
Summary/Abstract: During the wars in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (1991–1996), the importance of Belgrade’s anti-war organizations was manifold. Organizations, such as The Belgrade Circle, The Center for Anti-War Action, and Women in Black, have constantly organized demonstrations, public debates, and protests against the war. In this paper, I wanted to present another role that they had, and that is the organization of humanitarian aid, through “ADRA” and “Dobrotvor”, which was very important for the citizens of Sarajevo under siege. I presented the picture of the atmosphere in Belgrade based on the interviews I conducted with Ljubinka Trgovčević Mitrović and Mensura Lula Mikijelj. I also used letters and texts published in the publication Bosna i Hercegovina – jezgro velikosrpskog projekta (Engl. Bosnia and Herzegovina – the core of the Project of Greater Serbia), edited by Sonja Biserko, which points to the importance of the humanitarian aid that arrived. In addition to the role played by Belgrade’s anti-war movements in the process of agitation against the war, and their role in collecting humanitarian aid, I also presented the personal role of Ljubinka Trgovčević Mitrović and Mensura Lula Mikijelj in all these actions.

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