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Street actions: in this reporting period we have organized:
-commemorations\marking of significant dates, of the crimes committed in our name
-feminist, antifa, antiwar, antiracial, antimilitary...
Commemorations\marking of significant dates of the crimes committed in our name:
12th of May, Bratunac, Bosnia and Herzegovina:: eight Women in Black activists were involved in marking of twentieth anniversary of crimes over Bosnian civilians in Bratunac. In April and May, 1992., 603 persons were executed in Bratunac, all of them of Bosnians, while during one day eighty of them were executed: women, men and children, of all ages-nine months old as well as 86 years old. The crimes were committed by members of Srpska Republic Army and Serbian regime, led by Slobodan Milosevic. Women in Black activists, have laid a wreath in the memory of the crime and as a tribute to victims. The wreath had an inscription: `Not to forget the crime in Bratunac, 1992.-Women in Black, Belgrade.`
24th of May, Belgrade: Peace action-`Crimes over women in Bosnia and Herzegovina-we remember,` organized by the support of Women`s Reconstruction Fund, and ACT Women. It was organized as a remembrance of twentieth anniversary since the beginning of Serbian aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina and especially on women, victims of sexual crimes. During performance, lasting two hours, on the Republic Square, the activists have read the names of women executed in Prijedor. 5.209 citizens, have been executed since 1992. until 1995., and the idea was to organize similar performance in Prijedor as well, but, the authorities of Srpska Republic did not allow it. In this action of Women in Black, organized due to 24th of May-International Day of women actions for peace and disarmament, over hundred of women were involved.
26th of May, Visegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina: We were involved in the commemoration -3000 roses for each of the executed, due to twenty years since the crime on the bridge of Mehmed Pasa Sokolovic, as a remembrance of executed Bosnians, during Serbian aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina, since 1992. until 1995. Memorial marker was placed that very same day for the victims of the crime in 1992. on the graveyard of Straziste, were 66 of the victims exhumed were buried. Eight activists of Women in Black Serbian Network, as well as three from Montenegro, (Anima, from Kotor and Bonafide from Pljevlja), attended this commemoration, too, invited by the Association of victims in Visegrad.
31st of May, Belgrade: World Day of white straps. On a day, (1992.) when the authorities of Bosnian Serbs in Prijedor, ordered to non-Serbian population to mark their houses with white flags and sheets and to wear white straps on their way out of their houses. Women in Black joined the appeal of the Association of Camp Inmates from Prijedor 1992., Association of Camp Inmates from Kozarac, as well as the Association of families of missings. Women in Black have expressed their revolt because municipality authorities of Prijedor did not allow to the mentioned associations to mark the World Day of white straps, which is a continuance of the humiliation of victims. Women in Black activists distributed white straps to the passers by on the Republic Square, as a symbol of marking of one of the ethnic groups in war. The aim of this action is to raise awareness regarding fight for the dignity of million of victims, of the mass crimes and injustice-from Prijedor to Johanesbourg, and from Jakarta to Lima, a voice against denial of the truth about crimes committed due to racial, ethnic or political affiliation of the victims. Approximately seventy activists took part in this action.
1st of June, Zvornik, Bosnia and Herzegovina: During May and June of 1992., on the territory of Zvornik municipality, serbian armed forces tortured civilians of Muslim nationality-700men, women, and children, afterwards they were executed in Gerina Klanica. Due to twenty years since the crime was committed, the marsh was organized-detour through the places were the persecution and deportation were conducted, mass graves and concentration camps as well, in the region of Zvornik (Snagovo, Crni Vrh, Karakaj, Klisa, Technical Center, ...). In this act of remembrance eight Women in Black activists were involved, togehter with couple of thousands of family members of the victims and survived ones.
8ht, 9th and 10th of July, Nezuk-Potocari\Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Women in Black were involved in the marsh `Through route of death to freedom,` from place Nezuk to Tuzla and Potocari. Twelve activists were involved in this years marsh, out of Women in Black Serbian Network (Nis, Bajina Basta, Belgrade). After the occupation of Srebrenica, in July of 1995., by the side of Serbian forces, led by war criminal Ratko Mladic, Bosnian civilians, through this very path, running away of the crimes, tried to find salvation. Unfortunately, most of them were executed, and a small number of them saved their lives. Marsh, of 128km lenght, is first of all an honour to the victims of genocide, as well as a remembrance on mass and terrible crimes. It is also an act of creating a memory culture, solidarity and compassion. During marsh, in which were involved activists and people from all over the world, they evoked the memories of survivors, it was a certain history lesson.
10th of July, Belgrade: Peace action `We will never forget Srebrenica`s Genocide,` was conducted on the Republic Square in Belgrade and was consisted of numeorus segments:
Memorial Center Potocari\Srebrenica in Belgrade: placards with names of all of the executed were placed in the name of memory, solidarity and responsibility for the victims of the executed in Srebrenica`s Genocide (8723). `Moving` Srebrenica on the Republic Square of Belgrade, with 8723 names of the genocide victims, we wanted to warn that our eyes can not be closed in front of genocide, and that only facing with it, we can contribute to establishment of the rule of law and political culture of punishment for the crimes.
Raising a monument for the victims of Srebrenica`s Genocide: the continuance of the activities we have conducted during past years within the artistic-activist initiative `A pair of shoes-one life` in order to raise a permanent monument in Belgrade. Activists of Women in Black Serbian Network, have collected shoes all over Serbia and those which were gathered (couple of thousands of shoes), became a protected value, by raising of this temporary monument.
The initiators contacted authorities many times, in order to be provided with a location for raising a permanent monument for the victims of genocide. However, we were refused by the authorities. The initiators do consider that `state` does not have the political will or moral capacity for the compassion with the victims and therefore we have continued campaign by raising the monument for the victims of Srebrenica`s Genocide.
Audio projection of the movie `Srebrenica`s women are speaking`: produced by Women in Black and edited by Milica Tomic, lasting 17minutes. Relatives of the executed in Srebrenica, witnessed on genocide, referring to the citizens of Belgrade an Serbia, due to thirteenth anniversary of genocide (10th of July, 2008.), when the movie was presented for the first time in Belgrade, on the Republic square. It is consisted of referring to the citizens of Belgrade an Serbia by the side of relatives of the executed in Srebrenica. It is filmed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, supported by Association of citizens`Srebrenica`s women` from Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina). The action was organized by Women in Black and Art Clinics from Novi Sad, Skart from Belgrade.
11th of July, Potocari, Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Due to seventeenth anniversary of Srebrenica`s Genocide, fifty activists of Women in Black Serbian Network, as well as from France, Italy, Holland, USA, Switzerland, Sweden, attended the commemoration and burrial of 520 identified victims of Srebrenica`s Genocide, within Memorial Center of Potocari. This time we have laid a wreath with the inscription `We will never forget Srebrenica`s Genocide.`
18th of July, Belgrade, marking fourteenth anniversary of the crimes committed over Serbian civilians in Kosovo: on the territory of Orahovac and Retimlje municipality 25 Serbs were killed, in July of 1998. During this commemorative act on Orlovaca graveyard, organized by Association of Kidnapped and Missing in Kosovo and Metohia, activists of Women in Black and Humanitarian Law Fund, from Belgrade, laid the wreath expressing their compassion and solidarity with families of the victims.
4th of August, Belgrade: Peace action `Storm-1995.-2012.` We remember! Due to seventeenth anniversary of crimes against civilians in Krajina\Croatia. Namely, in August of 1995., during army and police action `Storm` of Croatian Army, the mass Serb population was expelled out of the territory occupied by armed formations of so called Republic Srpska Krajina. During this action and immediatelly after it, members of Croatian regular as well as paramilitary forces, have executed more then hundreds of civilians, mostly elderly people. The action was organized by Women in Black and Association of citizens `Srebrenica`s women` from Tuzla.
5th and 6th of August, Omarska and Trnopolje, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Invited by the Board for marking twenty years of calvary of innocent people of Prijedor. Women in Black activists have visited concentration camps Trnopolje and Omarska, together with associations `Monument` and `Four faces of Omarska` from Belgrade. In mentioned concentration camps, thousands persons of Bosnian and Croatian nationality, were captured by the side of Serbian police and army. 5th of August was dedicated to memory on the concentration camp of Trnopolje and 6th of August for Omarska, date when it was closed. This visit is a tribute to the victims, solidarity with those who have survived, as well as support to building of Memorial Center on the territory of ex Omarska concentracion camp.
Feminist-antifa, antimilitary, antihomophobic street actions
-11th of May and 22nd of June, Belgrade – stop rehabilitation of war criminal-Women in Black have expressed their revolt in front of Third Municipal Court of Belgrade (where was a new session of political and trial process of rehabilitation to a war criminal, Chetnics commander, colaborator of Hitler`s forces in time of Second World War-Draza Mihailovic). They also expressed, as they did during previous sessions too, their protest against the rehabilitation of a war criminal, a well as against the authorities who misuse judicial instances, destroying judicial system, inflicting irreparable damage to regional relations.
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