Wednesday, 2 april 2025.
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.
Getting away from death
Sulejman Kahrimanovic survived the shooting at Koricanske stijene in August 1992. He shares with BIRN-Justice Report his recollections of the day when he lost his son Mehmed and the days...
The love story of Avdo and Esma goes on
More than 10,000 persons are still missing after three and half years of war in BiH. Avdo Palic, a Bosnia and Herzegovina army officer from Zepa, who disappeared in 1995,...