Although the courts have established the facts about the horrific crimes committed during the war throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina - and specifically at the locations mentioned above - none of these sites have memorials that recognize the suffering and trauma endured by the victims. For this reason, we have chosen to mark these locations of wartime concentration camps on Google Maps. Nearly thirty years after the war’s end, the walls of these buildings remain marked only by silence.

Efforts to reach a broader public and to spark the necessary inclusive dialogue and progress - including truth-seeking activities and commemorations of suffering - continue to be led primarily by civil society.

The aim of this webpage is to serve as a reminder of the lack of official memorials, as well as the insufficient willingness for symbolic recognition of the suffering of all victims, while also encouraging inclusive dialogues towards improving the culture of remembrance for the innocent victims. Additionally, through the creation of a digital archive, we strive to permanently preserve and document memories, stories, and material traces of the past, in order to enable broader access to information and contribute to the process of memorialization for current and future generations.

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence of Crimes at the United Nations Human Rights Council, Fabian Savioli, who visited BiH at the end of 2021, emphasized in his report from 2022 that the comprehensive memorialization of the suffering underwent by all victims is vital for reconciliation, which would guarantee the non-recurrence of previous crimes and restore the dignity of the victims. Efforts related to memorialization must be aimed at establishing conditions for an open conversation within society about the causes, responsibility and consequences of past violence, which would enable the society to live more peacefully with the legacy of previous divisions, and not fall into the danger of revisionism, including denial and relativisation.