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What do young people know about the recent wartime past? Who teaches them about the events of the 1990s, and how? How do they perceive these tragic events? We followed a group of young people from several countries during a peace camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina to find out directly from them. Each May in Prijedor, White Armband Day is marked, and during a march through the city centre, on the main square, the names of 102 children who were killed during the war are read out. A monument to them has still not been built in Prijedor.
The town hosted a youth camp where people talked to parents and families of the children who were killed in the war about events from the past when they were not even born. They had many questions and feelings about it, and they say they’ll take even more questions home with them.
