After the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995, a woman whom the archive identifies only by the initials H. T. sought refuge in Potočari, where the base of the Dutch UNPROFOR battalion was located. According to her testimony, VRS soldiers raped her there, and the men of her family were killed while trying to reach territory controlled by the ARBiH through the forest. She was able to speak about what she had survived only after many years.
Biography · Srebrenica · July 6, 1995 – July 13, 1995
In July 1995 in Srebrenica, Saliha Osmanović of Dobrak near Skelani lost her younger son Edin, her husband Ramo and her elder son Nermin. Ramo was recorded on a video in which, taken prisoner, he calls out to his son from the forest. Saliha testified about this before the Hague Tribunal in the proceedings against Ratko Mladić and returned to Dobrak, where she rebuilt the house that had been built for her sons.
Account of an event · Školsko igralište osnovne i srednje škole u Srebrenici · April 12, 1993
On 12 April 1993, shells fired from positions of the Vojska Republike Srpske fell on a school playground in besieged Srebrenica, where a football tournament was being held and where mostly children and young people had gathered. According to official figures, 74 Bosniak civilians were killed at the scene, and the total number of victims is given as up to 105. No official investigation was ever conducted, and no one has been tried for the attack to this day.
History of a unit · Gacko · April 1992 – November 1992
In the spring and summer of 1992, Bosniaks from the Gacko municipality were subjected to intimidation, detention, killings and forcible expulsion, while women, children and the elderly were sent to neighbouring municipalities and as far as Macedonia. A number of the expelled men made their way through to Mostar, where the Samostalni gatački bataljon "Šargan" was formed on 26 August 1992; it then became part of the 4th Corps of the Army of the RBiH and later of the 49th Light Brigade.