Monday, 31 march 2025.
‘They Will Kill Us’: One Woman’s Story of Escape from Srebrenica
Djulsa Velic was one of around 40,000 women, children and elderly people who were expelled from Srebrenica by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995, and her testimony has now become...
Brutal Memories: One Man’s Life in Detention in Wartime Bosnia
Almin Djelilovic was 21 when he was seized by Bosnian Serb forces and held in detention camps where he was beaten up and forced to work on the frontlines, carry...
‘Sniper Alley’ Site Preserves Pictorial Memory of Sarajevo Siege
The Sniper Alley website aims to create a photographic archive as a permanent record of besieged wartime Sarajevo, enable Bosnians to access images from the period – and help its...
Escape from Srebrenica: Three Brothers’ Deadly Journey
Hasan Hasanovic remembers how he and his brothers began a perilous trek from Srebrenica to escape Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995 - but one brother was shot dead and...
Bosnian Policeman’s Ten-Year Battle to Prove Innocence
After three-and-a-half years in custody in Serbia and a ten-year legal struggle against charges of ordering an attack on retreating Yugoslav troops in Tuzla in 1992, Bosnian ex-policeman Ilija Jurisic...
Facing Up to Mladic After Surviving a Massacre
Grgo Stojic is the only victim of a wartime massacre in the Bosnian village of Skrljevita who survived to testify against former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic in the...
How a Bosnian Boy Survived a Firing Squad
Jasmin Causevic was 13 when he found himself in front of a Bosnian Serb firing squad - and despite being seriously wounded, he survived by hiding out in a basement...
Video Messages from the Dead of Srebrenica
Recordings made by a Srebrenica man called Velid Delic, who was killed in the 1995 massacres, show life in the town during the war years - with poignant messages from...
Ratko Mladic’s Gifts to Children: Chocolate and Lies
Izudin Alic was eight when Bosnian Serb Army chief Ratko Mladic met him and other Bosniak children in Srebrenica in 1995, gave them chocolates, and falsely promised that everyone would...