{"id":224731,"date":"2021-07-02T08:52:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T08:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=208269"},"modified":"2021-07-02T08:52:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T08:52:34","slug":"the-black-butterflies-of-forgetting-on-the-destruction-of-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/07\/02\/the-black-butterflies-of-forgetting-on-the-destruction-of-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Butterflies of Forgetting: On the Destruction of Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years after the end of the Bosnian war, I was invited to teach at the University of Sarajevo. On my first walk through the Bosnian capital, scarred by the traces of gunfire, I visited the ruins of the National Library, destroyed by bombing. On the night of August 25, 1992, the artillery of  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/02\/the-black-butterflies-of-forgetting-on-the-destruction-of-memory\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/02\/the-black-butterflies-of-forgetting-on-the-destruction-of-memory\/\">The Black Butterflies of Forgetting: On the Destruction of Memory<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/02\/the-black-butterflies-of-forgetting-on-the-destruction-of-memory\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years after the end of the Bosnian war, I was invited to teach at the University of Sarajevo. On my first walk through the Bosnian capital, scarred by the traces of gunfire, I visited the ruins of the National Library, destroyed by bombing. On th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224912,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224731\/revisions\/224912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}