UDIK

, Croatian and Serbian is a recognizable UDIK's motto in the public UDIK was founded in 2013 by Edvin Kanka Ćudić. It aimed to gather facts, documents, and data on genocide, war crimes, and human rights violations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and former Yugoslavia. UDIK works across national boundaries to assist post-conflict societies within the region reestablish the rule of law and deal with past human rights abuses. UDIK also implements a victim-oriented transitional justice programme with three principal components: • Documenting • Justice and institutional reform • Memorialization UDIK was made up of independent members, intellectuals and professionals from different academic disciplines. Other activities Since its inception, UDIK supports the women's and LGBT rights. Ćudić in several interviews said that the LGBT community, with the Romani people, is the most vulnerable community in Bosnia and Herzegovina. When the Bosnia and Herzegovina's first LGBT Pride Parade was announced in 2019, UDIK immediately supported the parade. ==Researches==

Publications about war crimes Every year UDIK publishes documents about war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina. UDIK has published extensively on subjects such as war crimes, massacres and human rights violations from 1992 to 1995 in Foča, Višegrad, Sarajevo's Grbavica, Trusina, Sarajevo's Kazani, Sanski Most, Bugojno, Grabovica, Sijekovac, Vlasenica, Zaklopača, Biljani, Čajniče etc. On the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, UDIK published a book with the names of the buried victims of genocide from 2003 to 2019. UDIK's publications about war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina are available at the Library of Congress in United States. Central register of memorials In 2016, UDIK published the first results of the Central register of memorials for Bosnia and Herzegovina, listing more than 2.100 memorials to the victims of Bosnian War. Next year, UDIK also published register about more than 1.200 memorials built in Croatia dedicated to the victims of Homeland War. In 2018 UDIK published register about more than 300 memorials build in Serbia (without Kosovo) and Montenegro dedicated to the victims of Serbia and Montenegro in Yugoslav wars. The registry also included memorials dedicated to the victims of NATO bombing of Serbia and Montenegro. The Central register of memorials of the Yugoslav wars is still the only register of memorials to victims of the Yugoslav wars on the territory of the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Controversial memorials Since 2017, UDIK has been conducting studies on controversial memorials that were built after 1991 in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, and which glorify fascism and hatred among the people of the former Yugoslavia. There are currently publications on controversial monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia (without Kosovo). Analysis included monuments dedicated to Draža Mihailović, Alojzije Stepinac and Josip Broz Tito. Memorials to foreigners in Bosnia and Herzegovina In 2026, UDIK published a study on monuments dedicated to foreign citizens in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The research included memorials dedicated to murdered journalists, humanitarians, diplomats and soldiers killed during the Bosnian War. == Advocacy ==

Since 2013, UDIK has organized a large number of commemorations for the victims of past war in the former Yugoslavia (1991-2001). UDIK calls this commemorations the Living monument. The ceremonies were organized in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo, Tuzla, Brčko, Zenica, Višegrad, Foča), Croatia (Zagreb, Vukovar) and Serbia (Belgrade, Prijepolje). Thanks to this initiative, for the first time, many commemorations were organized. These commemorations were related to crimes against civilian victims of Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats. Storm and Ahmići (Zagreb) 2014 UDIK with Centre ROSA from Zagreb, in 2014 started the campaign "The crimes in the Operation Storm are the responsibility of all of us" in order to commemorate Serbs victims of the crimes in Operation Storm in Croatia. In May 2015, the Federal Ministry of Interior of the Bosnia and Herzegovina banned the commemoration in Sarajevo. In May 2016, the same commemoration was banned by the MUP of the Republic of Croatia, but in the end it was held in Zagreb with increased police security. In 2022, UDIK initiated a coalition with the Centre ROSA to commemorate the massacre in Ahmići. The first activity was held on the anniversary of the war crime of the same year in the capital of Croatia. The following year, the network was expanded with several more Croatian NGOs. On 4 April 2023, seven organizations submitted a request to the City of Zagreb to name the square after the victims of the Ahmići massacre. St. Joseph Cemetery (Sarajevo) From April 2022, UDIK is advocating for the installation of a memorial plaque at the St. Joseph Cemetery in Sarajevo. The memorial plaque should be at the place of re-exhumation of Serbian victims killed in Kazani, Gaj and Grm Maline. Initially, UDIK referred the initiative to the institution that deals with the maintenance of cemeteries, but later the initiative came in Sarajevo City Council. It was rejected in 2023 and then in 2024. Zanatski Center (Brčko) In May 2023, UDIK launched an initiative to mark the place of the murder of Hajrudin Muzurović and Husein Kršo in Brčko. In May 1992 civilians were executed by Goran Jelisić in the city center. The execution was photographed. UDIK submitted the request for the memorial plaque to the Assembly of the Brčko District. However, the request was ignored by the authorities. In March 2024, UDIK again sent an initiative for a memorial plaque to the mayor of Brčko, the president of the Assembly and the Assembly of the Brčko District. Initiative was again ignored. On May 7, 2024, UDIK with the members of Muzurović and Kršo families laid flowers at the place of the murder. It was the first commemoration held in street of Zanatski center in Brčko which Goran Jelisić used as an execution ground. ==Bibliography==

Notable contributors have included: • Amir Duranović, PhD • Amra Čusto • Dino Jozić • Dženan Skelić, PhD • Edin Radušić, PhD • Emza Fazlić • Ibro Čavčić • Igor Bencion Kožemjakin • Jusuf Hafizović • Lejla Čengić • Ljubinka Petrović-Ziemer, PhD • Marijana Stojčić • Matea Jerković • Mladen Obrenović, PhD • Nerzuk Ćurak, PhD • Vildana Selimbegović • Vjeran Pavlaković, PhD ==Achievements==

Kazani (Sarajevo) at the UDIK commemoration for Kazani in front of the Cathedral on 25 October 2014 Since 2014, UDIK has been advocating for the construction of a monument to the victims of the Kazani massacre in Sarajevo. UDIK was the first non-governmental organization to pay tribute to the victims of this war crime. Commemorations were organized in front of the Sarajevo's Cathedral. Since 2017, UDIK has been urging the City of Sarajevo to build a monument to the victims of this crime on Trebević and in the city center. The reason for this is that Kazani, as a crime scene, is quite far from the city and access to the location is not easy. With a monument in the city as a permanent reminder of this crime, people will be able to deal with the war past. In 2020, this UDIK's initiative was accepted by many Bosnian and international organizations. A year later, same initiative was also accepted by intellectuals and representatives of the victims of this war crime. However, the initiative was rejected by the mayor of Sarajevo, Benjamina Karić. Instead of supporting the initiative, the City Council decided to build a monument at the Kazani location, without consulting the initiators and victims. In September 2021, the City Council of Sarajevo submitted a proposal for a monument. In response to that proposal, UDIK requested that the name of the perpetrator of war crimes be written on the monument, and that the number of victims on the monument is not final. The mayor refused that request. Kazani monument was open in November 2021 by the mayor Benjamina Karić. None of the victims' representatives was present at the opening of the monument. Pension fund (Podgorica) Following media reports that Montenegrin pensioners were going to the Vilina Vlas Hotel and Spa in Višegrad for rehabilitation, UDIK and the Center for Civic Education (CCE) from Podgorica launched an initiative on 13 March 2026 with the Pension Fund of Montenegro (PIO) to terminate the contract with the Vilina Vlas. UDIK and CCE stated that "many guests who come to Vilina Vlas today do not know that they are sleeping in rooms and on beds where mass rapes and murders were committed just thirty years ago". On 20 March 2026, the Montenegrin Ministry of Social Protection, Family Care and Demography announced that on 16 March, the fund "unilaterally terminated the cooperation agreement with the Vilina Vlas rehabilitation center in Višegrad." The Ministry stated that the current management was not involved in the signing of the original contract in 2016 and was not aware of the historical context. UDIK and CCE welcomed the ministry's decision on 23 March 2026. == Allegations of bias ==

The criticism generally falls into the category of alleged bias, often in response to UDIK's activities. Bias allegations include the organization's insistence on war crimes on Serbs or Croats which were committed by the Bosnian Army. Bosniak right-wing media in Bosnia and Herzegovina think that certain crimes against Serbs or Croats which were committed by the Bosnian Army were legitimate military targets against the aggressor while UDIK believes that Bosniaks must take responsibility for the killings of civilians in those crimes. ==References==