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Live From Manhattan: Bosnia’s Republika Srpska and a Selective View of the Past
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Balkan Insight
This post is also available in this language: Shqip Bos/Hrv/SrpIn late July, Denis Bojic, the director of the Republika Srpska Memorial Centre, told the Serbian daily newspaper Politika: “The politics of memory is a means of survival.”
Bojic was commenting on the Centre’s recent campaign in New York, in which billboards bearing photographs and accounts testifying to the ‘suffering’ of the Serb people travelled through Manhattan.
If Republika Srpska, the predominantly Serb-populated entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, were denied the right to tell the world about Serb suffering, he said, it would mean “the end of the existence of Republika Srpska”.
‘Learn About Serbian Suffering’ was presented in New York on July 10 and 11 by the Memorial Centre, a public institution established by the Republika Srpska government in 2024.
Even the timing of the exhibition was political.