Reports

As we have done in the past, we are providing you with a short report on the activities of Women in Black in the reporting period.

We would like to thank you in advance, in solidarity.

Street actions: In this reporting period we organized fifteen (15) events,and we also actively participated in other street actions
- commemoration/marking important dates of crimes committed in our names;
- Feminist, anti-fascist, anti-war, anti-racist, anti-militaristic actions...

Commemoration / marking of important dates of crimes committed in our name, as well as other crimes against civilian population, during and after wars, in the territory of the former Yugoslavia:

Belgrade, 27^th February - “We remember the crime in Štrpci”
- commemorating the 29^th anniversary of the crime committed in Štrpci, Women in Black organized a vigil in mourning and silence in Knez Mihailova Street in Belgrade.

The following banners were displayed during the vigil:

• 27^th Feb. 1993 – Members of the Serbian paramilitary formation Avengers abducted Bosniak passengers from a train on the Belgrade-Bar railway
• The death train number 671 departed from Belgrade
• The train stopped at 3:48 p.m.
• The kidnapped and killed: names of the victims
• We remember the crime in Štrpci (27^th February 1993-27^th February 2022)
• Solidarity
• Responsibility 

About twenty 20 activists were present at the vigil.

Prijepolje, 27^th February - “We remember victims of Štrpci crime”
– in front of the memorial plaque in Prijepolje, the 28^th anniversary of the crime in Štrpci was marked. Activists of the association of women Žene Polimlja from Prijepolje (Serbia) and Bona Fide from Pljevlja (Montenegro), on behalf of the Network of Women in Black, together with the families of the victims, paid tribute to the victims of crimes in Štrpci.

Belgrade, 6^th April - “Were member the beginning of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina”
- on the 30^th anniversary of the beginning of the war in BH and the siege of Sarajevo, April 6^th, 1992, Women in Black and Youth Initiative for Human Rights organized a peace action in Knez Mihailova Street in Belgrade.

The following banners were displayed during the vigil:

• 30 years since the onset of the war in BH
• We held the same banners/messages during the siege: Do you remember Sarajevo? ; Sarajevo a tomb of the living, etc
• From April 1992 until February 1996, Women in Black protested against the siege of Sarajevo – every week, in Republic Square, in mourning and silence
• Belgrade to Sarajevo during the siege:
  Black band – on May 31st1992 in Belgrade, 100,000 people protested against the war and siege of Sarajevo.
  1,000 letters for Sarajevo – civic action (1995) of collecting Belgrade citizens’ letters for the citizens of Sarajevo.
  Sending packages Belgrade - Sarajevo - solidarity civil action from the beginning to the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Solidarity collection of aid in Belgrade for Sarajevo - for women, children, men in cellars...
  Peace Caravan 9 -11 April 1995 - for the first time since the beginning of the war in BH, about 40 people from Belgrade visited the besieged city of Sarajevo.

The siege of Sarajevo (from April 1992 till November 1995) lasted 1,475 days and was the longest siege of a city in modern history. During the Belgrade, 6th April Prijepolje, 27^th February 4 siege, over 11,000 adults and 1,601 children were killed. More than 480,000 missiles were fired at the city...

In the war in BH (1992-1995): 97,207 people were killed, about 20,000 women were raped; in Bosnia and Herzegovina there were 1,350 camps through which about 200,000 people circulated, 8,372 people were killed in the genocide in Srebrenica.

During the peace action in which 25 activists took part, messages from people from Belgrade to people in Sarajevo were collected.

Belgrade, 23^th April - “Why?”
-on the occasion of the 23rd anniversary of the murder of 16 workers in the Radio Television of Serbia/RTS in the NATO bombing (1999), as a sign of empathy and solidarity with the families of those killed in front of the monument called Why? in Tašmajdan Park, activists participated in commemorative rallies on April 23rd (at 2:06 and 14:06).

In these commemorative events, fifteen (15) activists of Women in Black, Belgrade and the Citizens’ Association “Anima” from Đulići near Zvornik (Bosnia and Herzegovina) participated. During the war in BH (1992-1995): 97,207 people were killed, about 20,000 women were raped; in Bosnia and Herzegovina there were 1,350 camps through which about 200,000 people passed, in the genocide in Srebrenica 8,372 people were killed.

During the peace action in which 25 activists participated, messages from people from Belgrade to people in Sarajevo were collected… 

Feminist, anti-fascist, anti-war, anti-racist, anti-militarist actions...

Report on our activities in pdf.