A photograph taken in a village near Srebrenica at a UN base captures an ordinary childhood moment – friends gathered together, carefree and happy. For Fadila Ademović, it is one...
Nirha Efendic was 16 when her father and brother were killed in 1995. Photographs collected for a memorialisation project about the Srebrenica genocide are a powerful reminder of her family’s...
While writing words like “happiness” and “play” on the blackboard, pupils at a Sarajevo elementary school had no idea that they would be taught about the stories of children whose...
In December, BIRN went inside camps in northeastern Syria where thousands of women and children who lived under the Islamic State are being held in indefinite detention, some of them...
The first Bosnian citizen captured in Ukraine describes to Detektor how he went from Germany to Moscow and, without adequate training, became a mercenary in the Russian army. This interview...
Dzemila Hodzic thought she had buried her brother 30 years ago – but now knows the grave did not contain his remains. She is not the only one to suffer...
After the war ended, Ziba Kavazovic received a letter from a Serb neighbour, whose name she won’t reveal, describing how seven members of the Kavazovic family, including three children, were...
Every year, hundreds of bikers from Bosnia and Herzegovina and other countries join a marathon motorcycle ride to Srebrenica to pay tribute to those killed in the genocide in July...
In front of the former Hague Tribunal building, thousands of pieces of stones brought from Bosnia are going to be part of a provisional monument to commemorate the victims of...