IN WHAT WAY IS REPAIRING HISTORICAL INJUSTICE IN SERBIA AMBIGUOUS?
IN WHAT WAY IS REPAIRING HISTORICAL INJUSTICE IN SERBIA AMBIGUOUS?

Summary/Abstract: This article covers how Serbia is dealing with redressing historical injustice in its specific post-communist and post-war context. It is deliberately limited to the most relevant and controversial cases of rehabilitation: the rehabilitation of the Chetnik movement and the rehabilitation of their leader, General Draža Mihailović, whose role in history is being argued about. My aim is to show in what way is repairing historical injustice in Serbia ambiguous and how it reflects its contemporary political context more than it redresses past wrongs, perpetuating old Second World War divisions and creating new struggles over interpretations of history. The scope of this article is deliberately focused on the analysis of the context in which the debates take place and is neither reproducing in details the polemics nor is confronting historical facts. This article illustrates the thesis that repairing historical injustice in Serbia is a highly politicized and ambiguous process which creates new paradoxes and controversies as well as new regional tensions.

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