Thursday, 12 march 2026.
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...
Last Farewell to My Wife in Nevesinje
When the Serbs took away Musan Sarancic’s wife, Sabira, in 1992, he thought her gender might protect her from the worst. But he was wrong; he never saw her again.
Mother’s 18-Year Search For Murdered Son’s Bones
Asima Memic’s son, Asmir, boarded a bus from Prijedor to Travniik as part of an exchange in July 1992. He never arrived, and only a single limb has ever been...
“Haunted by hearing brother being killed in Manjaca”
Muhamed Filipovic was beaten so badly in the Serb-run camp that his face required extensive surgery. But what hurts much more are memories of hearing his brother being killed.
A Month In The Hands of Milan Lukic
Emina S was 22 when she fell into the hands of the Bosnian Serb paramilitary chief who repeatedly raped her until she escaped into the woods. She told her story...
Grieving Bosnian Mother Waits to Confront Karadzic
Dzenana Sokolovic who lost her son, aged seven, to a sniper in 1994 will be among the first witnesses to appear at the genocide trial of the former Bosnian Serb...
Italy Honours Heroic Compassion of Bosnian Widow
The selflessness of a poor mother who took in an abandoned child 17 years ago, at the height of the Bosnian war, is recognized in Padua’s Garden of the Righteous.