THROUGH THE ORAL HISTORY METHOD

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EVEREYDAY LIFE IN SREBRENICA TODAY AND TOMORROW

• THROUGH THE ORAL HISTORY METHOD

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• BASIC INFORMATIONS ABOUT MY RESARCH
• Duration 4 days (15.-18.8.06)
• 13 interviews (8 Muslims, 5 Serbs)
• Questions strictly about the time before the
  war and today

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Basic statistic information about Srebrenica

• BEFORE THE WAR
• Population 37 000
• Employed 11 000
• Ethnic structure 28000 / 8000 / 600 / 43
• TODAY
• Population 10 500
• Employed 1500
• Ethnic structure 6000 / 4000 / 60

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• MAIN GOALS OF MY RESARCH
• Before the war/after the war/today
• Relationship in everyday life between Muslim and
  Serb population
• Economic situation
• Religion
• School
• International community and Srebrenica
• Future of Srebrenica in the eyes of the people

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• Interviewees
• local historian, major, local economist, local
  policeman, restaurant manager, two NGO
  secretaries, local butcher and folklora dancing
  leader, shop owner, two local waiters, local
  journalist, writer and cultural worker, local
  teacher

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• QUESTIONS
• I started with
• INTRODUCTION OF ME AND MY WORK
• QUESTION IF I CAN TAPE THE INTERVIEW
• BASIC INFORMATIONS ABOUT THE INTERVIEWEE
• Age
• Ethnic origin
• Job

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• EVERYDAY LIFE RELATIONS
• Ethnic relations before and after the war?
• What is you relation with other ethnicity
  (before/after)?
• How are governments of RS and federation, local
  authorities and international community treating
  Srebrenica?
• Mixed marriages (before/after)

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• Practical work for building a new relationship
• A personal question (for Muslims) why did you
  come back?
• (are the Muslims coming back?)-2000
• Fundamentalists in Srebrenica today?

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• LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND POLITICAL PARTIES
• Major and local administration
• Political parties (SDA, SNSD, SDS, SDP)
• role of local authority, UNDP and other
  international organizations
• in creating new, better relations in the
  community

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• ECONOMICS and TOURISM
• Economic situation in Srebrenica today
  (before/after)?
• Factories, mining industry, agriculture and
  employment (before/after in )
• International community and regeneration of
  economy
• Tourism (before/after) and good natural resources
• Future of economy and tourism?

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• SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION
• Which school, how many pupils, students?
• How many teachers, which ethnicity?
• Which teaching program is official?
• Religion classes?
• Relations between pupils?
• Where are the pupils from Srebrenica studying?

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• RELIGION
• How are Muslim and Orthodox communities
  organized, financed?
• Are they working together?
• How would you describe religious relations before
  the war, 1996 2006?
• Can you say, religion still creates a border
  among people of Srebrenica, or is it connecting
  them?

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• FUTURE
• Does Srebrenica has a bright future?
• Your message to the citizens of BiH and to the
  world?

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SHORT ANALISYS OF THE ANSWERS

• EVERYDAY LIFE RELATIONS
• It is clear, ethnic relations were much better
  before the war, in socialistic YUG
• All interviewees still have some friends from
  other ethnic group, although just one mixed
  marriage is from the time after the war
• Although a small progress in the last couple of
  years, the government of Rep. Srpska is still the
  one, that obstructs normalization of relations
  between Serbs and Muslims

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• Unstable federation can not provide much help, so
  the main burden is on international organizations
• All points of authority use Srebrenica for
  collecting political points over the media
• Interesting is, all the interviewees agree, that
  local authority is making a good job
• Before the war, Srebrenica was one of the 5 most
  developed communities in BiH, now it is far on
  the last place

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LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND POLITICAL PARTIES

• Major Malkic is a Muslim (SDA), his
  administration is multiethnic (a lack of educated
  perssonel just 7 or 8 people finished
  university education)
• SDA is the leading political party in Srebrenica,
  other parties are SNSD, SDS and SDP(the only one
  multiethnic)
• The problem is, international organizations are
  working mostly on rebuilding the infrastructure,
  so the main burden of creating new human
  relations is in the hands of a couple of
  individuals from both ethnicities

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ECONOMICS and TOURISM

• Economy right after the war was totally destroyed
• Situation today is not much better (more than 80
  unemployed)
• The main business today is agriculture
• There are some little bright points Cimos
• Those who work, have mostly very low payments
• Before the war there were very developed mining
  industry, a lot of factories and good agriculture
  

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• The words I heard often were, that the
  international organizations should arrange jobs
  and business for the population, not just to
  build houses and roads, and make business for
  themselves
• Tourism before the war was very developed too
  (hunting, fishing, health resorts)
• Today tourism is on zero point, the problem is,
  international authorities are preventing giving
  licences for tourist business to individuals

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SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION

• Before the war there was 11000 pupils
• Today there are about 1000 (elementary and
  highschool)
• School program of Rep. Srpska
• A lot of Muslim pupils visit schools out of
  Srebrenica (some villages have federation
  programs)
• Just a couple of Muslim teachers
• Mixed classes, religion classes seperated
• There were some small conflicts between pupils
  (politicians do not want to see real problems
  higyena, heating)

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• Serb students are visiting universities in
  Zvornik ,Bijelina, Pale, Banjaluka, Serbia
• Muslim pupils are studying in Tuzla and Sarajevo
• There is a lack of young educated people, because
  they rather leave Srebrenica, they see no future
  there
• Bright point in 2006 Sarajevo university
  organized law and management study in Srebrenica
• Young people of both ethnicities visit different
  cultural events together (concerts) youth
  center

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RELIGION

• Orthodox, Muslim and a small Catholic community
• Before the war there was cooperation
• Today no cooperation, working for themselves
• Bright point House of trust
• Financing from diaspora, local authority
• Islamic center financed from Chicago
• religion is still creating borders among people
  of Srebrenica

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• FUTURE
• Does Srebrenica has a bright future?

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