Sećanje na zločin - predlog i reakcije
Remembrance of crime - proposal and reactions

Author(s): Todor Kuljić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: crime; trauma; critical culture of memory
Summary/Abstract: This contribution is an attempt to indicate not a separate, but a synchronous and mutually connected confrontation with the crimes of Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks in the war of 1991-95. Mass national crimes in the territories of the former Yugoslavia are multiple interconnected, similarly mediated and justified by a more or less constructed hot historical memory. Due to the inextricable intertwining of crimes and the memory of crimes, the one-sidedness of existing confrontations with the past should be overcome: first of all, the exclusivity of the hegemonic official conservative nationalist emphasis on the original and incomparable crimes of other nations and the indisputable victims of one's own people, and then the other, admittedly far less widespread, but also one-sided emphasis on only the crimes of one's own nation, which is visible in some non-governmental organizations.

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