Tag: memorials

1. Incompatible memories?

     This week I’ve been working on a paper for a workshop on War and Memory. I read back through my writing on memorials I visited last year in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including this one for killed children; I wondered about my friend Amar who lives in Banja Luka, in Republika Srpska, and works so […]

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2. I didn’t see the footprints: memorials for children in Bosnia and Hercegovina

   “The footprints! They’re all over the fountain. They make my heart break.” “I didn’t see them”. I was in Sarajevo, Bosnia, to attend a summer school called “Learning from the past: transitional justice”. The footprints were part of a memorial to children killed during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992-1995. I was at the summer […]

   blogs-test.unimelb.edu.au/childrefugees-test/2016/09/01/i-didnt-see-the-footprints-memorials-for-children-in-bosnia-and-hercegovina