Day of Youth – the Day When Youth Were Killed
Once one of the most significant holidays in the former Yugoslavia, Youth Day, marked on 25 May, was effectively erased in 1995 and replaced with a radically different narrative. The massacre at Tuzla’s Kapija that year reshaped the collective memory associated with this date. The tradition of carrying the Youth Relay in Tito’s honour faded into a distant and foggy recollection, while the idea of “brotherhood and unity” likely received its final nail in the coffin—hammered in nationalist quarters of our former country.