Remembering Crimes - Proposal and Reactions
Remembering Crimes - Proposal and Reactions

Author(s): Todor Kuljić
Subject(s): Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: crime; trauma; the critical culture of remembering
Summary/Abstract: This paper is an attempt to point towards a synchronized and mutually related, rather than separate process of facing crimes committed by Serbs, Croats and Bosnians in the 1991-95 war. Mass crimes committed in ex-Yugoslavia are interconnected in many ways, facilitated and justified in a similar manner by more or less artificially constructed blazing historical memory. As the crimes and their memory are entangled beyond disentanglement, we should overcome the onesidedness of the existing processes of facing the past: first of all, the exclusive hegemonous official conservative-nationalistic emphasis on the authentic and incomparable crimes committed by other nations and the sacrosanct victims of one’s own nation, followed by another, albeit not so widespread, but also one-sided emphasis on crimes of one’s own nation only, apparent in the work of some nongovernmental organizations.

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