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The opening of the exhibition in Belgrade on Wednesday. Photo: BIRN
An exhibition entitled ‘Breaking Free’, featuring photographs of children born as a result of the Bosnian war and their mothers, opened at the Endzio Hub Gallery in Belgrade on Wednesday evening.
The exhibition was created by Ajna Jusic and Mirna Omercausevic from the Forgotten Children of War association, an NGO that campaigns for the rights of children born as a result of the Bosnian war.
Omercausevic told BIRN that the aim of the exhibition is to “make the audience aware of the existence of children who are a direct consequence of the war in the former Yugoslavia”.
“These children are those who were born as a result of wartime rape, children of UN peacekeepers and children of humanitarian workers whose missions took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war and after the war,” she explained.
The Forgotten Children of War association has been campaigning for such children to be legally recognised in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a vulnerable group entitled to social welfare services.
Omercausevic said that they are currently “completely legally unrecognised and invisible”.
The pictures taken by French-Syrian photographer Sakher Almonem first went on display in Tuzla, Sarajevo and Srebrenica in 2019.
The exhibition at the Endzio Hub gallery is open until October 22, daily from 12 noon-8pm.
