Back to black: Hague ruling on atrocities upsets Serbia’s fragile reconciliation process

Controversial human rights movement Women in Black travelled from Belgrade to Vukovar, Croatia, Nov. 19 to commemorate the 264 victims murdered here by Serb-sponsored forces in 1991. The Vukovar massacre was just one of many atrocities, perpetrated by all sides, as Yugoslavia collapsed into vicious civil war.

Women in Black, a Belgrade-based human rights movement, were strong opponents of Slobodan Milošević during the 1990s. Now they are key actors in the tenuous process of reconciliation in the former Yugoslavia region.

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