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Memories of the 1999 NATO Bombing in Belgrade, Serbia

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  • Fridman Orli

    (Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK), Singidunum University & School for International Training (SIT), Study Abroad, Karadjordjeva 65, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia)

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This paper analyses the memories of Belgrade residents of the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia (then part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia). By focusing on the memories of this event, yet placing them in a broader context of the conflicts of the 1990s—the breakup of Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav wars—this essay explores what international intervention has meant to respondents in Belgrade by documenting memories of international intervention among older and younger generations, as well as among active members of antiwar NGOs in Serbia and citizens who were not engaged in activism during the 1990s. The paper aims to expand the scope of the discussions on dealing with the past and on transitional justice in the Western Balkans and to place them in the context of social memory studies and the study of post-conflict transformation processes. Furthermore, by presenting the case study of Serbia, this text contributes to the analysis of local mnemonic batt les as part of the creation of collective memories of the 1990s in post-Milošević Serbia, and it sheds light on the memories of the bombing as related to the war in Kosovo and the subsequent effects on shaping postwar Serbia–Kosovo relations.

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  • Fridman Orli, 2016. "Memories of the 1999 NATO Bombing in Belgrade, Serbia," Comparative Southeast European Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 64(4), pages 438-459, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:soeuro:v:64:y:2016:i:4:p:438-459:n:2
    DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2016-0041
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