When Srebrenica fell in July 1995, the Salihović family from Skejići sought protection at the UN base in Potočari. The mother saved the younger brother by hiding him in a bus, while eighteen-year-old Abdulah was detained and killed; his incomplete remains were identified in 2008. His sister Almasa Salihović, today the spokesperson of the Srebrenica–Potočari Memorial Center, bears witness to the fate of the victims.
Personal testimony · Potočari · July 11, 1995 – July 13, 1995
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.
Personal testimony · Potočari · July 11, 1995 – July 13, 1995
When Srebrenica fell on 11 July 1995, Mirsada Malagić set out with her youngest son and her father-in-law toward the UN base in Potočari, while her husband Salko and son Admir set out through the forest. She never saw her husband, her two sons, her father-in-law, her two brothers-in-law and another young man from the family again. In 2000 she testified before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the case against Radislav Krstić.
Biography · Srebrenica · July 6, 1995 – July 14, 1995
In July 1995, Ramo Osmanović from Dobrak near Skelani lost his younger son Edin in the shelling of Srebrenica, and after the fall of the enclave he set out with his older son Nermin through the forest toward Tuzla. A video in which the captured Ramo calls on Nermin and other men to come out of the forest became one of the best-known images of the Srebrenica genocide; father and son were killed, and they were buried in Potočari in 2009.
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.
Personal testimony · Školsko igralište (poligon) osnovne i srednje škole u Srebrenici · 1993
On 12 April 1993, shells fired from positions of the Vojska Republike Srpske (VRS) fell on the school playground (poligon) in besieged Srebrenica, at a time when young people had begun gathering there again. Ahmed Hrustanović, then a child and today an imam in Srebrenica, recalls that spring and returns to the place where a monument with the names of those killed is still missing.
Fikret Hodžić, a bodybuilder who was champion of Yugoslavia fifteen years in a row and the founder of the first bodybuilding club in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was killed on 9 July 1992 in Trnopolje. On that day Serb soldiers took away his family, and according to the testimony of his wife Suada, the shot was fired by a young man who had previously trained with Fikret. His remains were found in a mass grave in 2009, and he was buried seventeen years after his death.
Personal testimony · Foča · July 1992 – August 1992
In written statement no. 10824/96, an anonymous Bosniak woman from a village about ten kilometres from Foča describes the attack by Serb forces in July 1992 and her detention at Buk Bijela, the Secondary School Centre in Aladža and the Partizan sports hall. Her testimony corresponds to the findings of the Hague Tribunal on the detention of Bosniak women, children and elderly persons in Foča in the summer of 1992. The Hague Tribunal issued a final conviction of Dragoljub Kunarac for crimes in Foča, sentencing him to 28 years in prison.
Personal testimony · Glogova · May 9, 1992 – May 10, 1992
Abida Omerović lived in Glogova near Bratunac for forty years, until the attack of 9 May 1992, in which forces of the JNA, the Territorial Defence, the police and paramilitary units from Bratunac killed 64 unarmed Bosniaks and razed the village to the ground. According to her account, women and children were expelled by bus to Kladanj. The attack was ordered by the Bratunac Crisis Staff, whose president, Miroslav Deronjić, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment by the Hague Tribunal.
Personal testimony · Briševo · April 29, 1992 – November 17, 1992
Ivo Atlija, a Bosnian Croat from Briševo near Prijedor, survived the attack on his village on 24 July 1992, in which his father and neighbours were killed. In the following weeks he helped bury the dead in Briševo, Stara Rijeka and Mlinari, and in November 1992 he left Bosnia in a convoy to Zagreb. He later testified before the ICTY in the trials of Milomir Stakić and Ratko Mladić.
Personal testimony · ulica Filipa Kljajića · April 9, 1992
On the morning of 9 April 1992, the day after Serb forces entered Zvornik, armed men burst into the basement of a residential building where some thirty civilians were hiding and led out the men. One family's story is known from the testimony of a woman in a documentary film, while the broader framework of events is described by witnesses before the ICTY. In 2023, the IRMCT issued a final conviction of Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović for crimes committed during the takeover of Zvornik.
Account of an event · Vlasenica · April 1992 – September 1992
After Serb forces took Vlasenica in the spring of 1992, Bosniak women and girls detained in the Sušica camp or taken away in transports from the town were subjected to sexual violence; among the victims were girls aged thirteen. Dragan Nikolić, the commander of the Sušica camp, and Goran Višković, a military policeman, have been convicted by final judgments of sexual violence in Vlasenica.