Wednesday, 2 april 2025.
Bosnian Widow Spends Last Days Between Sons’ Graves
Nura Alispahic, now 73, lost her whole family in the Srebrenica genocide and the 1995 bombing of Tuzla – which was marked on Thursday.
A Child Taken From Her Mother: Wartime Rape Survivor Suzana Tells Her Story
The life of a calm and cheerful girl was destroyed during two nights in 1992. Suzana J. was 14 years old when she was raped eight times by a group...
My story: We cannot be buried alive
H.S. spent nearly two years in the Rasadnik detention camp in Rogatica. She told BIRN-Justice Report about how she survived the camp, and the fate of the other captives. When...
Nurse at War: Blunt scalpels and candles
In the Dobrinja neighbourhood in Sarajevo, Sadeta Dervisevic risked her own life to help her fellow citizens - many of whom were children - survive the shells and snipers that...
Multiple rape of a 15-year-old girl
A woman from Srebrenica, who was a 15-year-old in 1992, was repeatedly raped, abused and assaulted in the then abandoned houses in Bratunac. Those who perpetrated the act have not...
Srebrenica Rape Victim Testimony: ‘A pain that will stay with me’
In July 1995, after Bosnian Serb forces overran Srebrenica, 18-year-old ‘H.T.’ was raped at a battery factory in nearby Potocari. It was 40 days she had given birth, and she...
Srebrenica Anniversary: “Worst Night In Life”
Some of the women who were raped by Bosnian Serb soldiers at the time of the Srebrenica massacres in 1995 have since managed to conquer their fears and speak out.
A Voice in the Srebrenica Silence
The pain she feels for having been raped after the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995 is reflected on her face too. However, she says that she no longer cries...
The Ground Hard and the Sky High
For a year-and-a-half, F.K. was mentally and physically abused in the Rasadnik detention camp in Rogatica, where she was repeatedly raped and forced to have sex with another detainee. She...