The shelling of the National Library on 25. August 1992 set the building ablaze and destroy millions of books, prompting widespread outrage and condemnation by the international public. It was qualified as the ‘cultural mutilation‘ of Sarajevo and an attempt to ‘erase Bosnia’s history’.
Judge Carmel Agius opening remarks at the launch of the ICTY Oral History Project.
It is my great pleasure to be with you this afternoon at the launch of the ICTY Oral History Project – an initiative of the Sense Transitional Justice Center.
A workshop for history teachers on the use of the ICTY archives and methods of teaching about topics related to war and human rights violations was held at the SENSE Transitional Justice Center in Pula.
SENSE Transitional Justice Center hosted a workshop for history teachers on the use of the archives of the ICTY and Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, bringing together twenty educators from Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Northern Macedonia.
The proceeding before the ICTY led to the creation of records about the 1990s conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and they are useful sources of facts for historians in their writing of history, said Mire Mladenovski, history teacher from North Macedonia, in his keynote speech at the webinar titled How to implement the archives of the ICTY and other courts in history teaching.
Testifying at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 2003, the last SFRY prime minister Ante Marković recalled the conversation he initiated about the shelling of Dubrovnik, on the sidelines of the Hague Peace Conference in November 1991.
