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.
Personal testimony · Srebrenica · July 11, 1995 – July 15, 1995
After the fall of Srebrenica on 11 July 1995, seventeen-year-old Witness O surrendered on 13 July together with several thousand men, after protection under the Geneva Conventions had been promised over a loudspeaker. At dawn on 15 July he was shot at a mass execution site, but survived among the bodies and, together with another survivor, reached ARBiH-held territory. He gave his testimony before the ICTY on 13 April 2000 in the trial of Radislav Krstić.
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.
Early in the morning of 10 July 1992, members of the 17th Light Infantry Brigade of the VRS and the police attacked the village of Biljani in the Ključ municipality and, in a single day, killed between 258 and 264 Bosniak civilians, according to different sources. The bodies were taken to mass graves, and the crime came to light only after the liberation of Ključ in September 1995. Only company commander Marko Samardžija has been finally convicted in connection with the massacre, and not for the killings but for the unlawful confinement of civilians.
Personal testimony · Osnovna škola „Vuk Karadžić“ u Bratuncu · May 9, 1992 – May 16, 1992
According to the testimony of a boy from Cerovac in the Hranča area, Serb forces attacked his village on 9 May 1992, and he was taken with other Bosniak men to the gymnasium of the "Vuk Karadžić" Primary School in Bratunac, where detainees were beaten and killed. After three days the survivors were transferred to a camp in Pale, and on 16 May 1992 they crossed into territory controlled by the ARBiH near Ilijaš.
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.