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.
Account of an event · Osnovna škola „Miladin Radojević“ Kalinovik · July 1992 – September 1992
In the summer of 1992, Serb forces detained hundreds of Bosniak civilians in the "Miladin Radojević" Elementary School in Kalinovik, among them nearly two hundred women, children and elderly people from Gacko. In August 1992, Suad Hasanbegović, Sejdo Kešo and Edin Bičo were taken from a classroom and killed; their remains were identified in 2009. For the crime committed at the school, the Court of BiH finally sentenced Novica Tripković to eight years in prison.
Mustafa Kuloglija, known as Kula, born in 1945 in Foča, has been listed as missing in Foča since June 1992. According to the testimony of one detainee, three guards took him away at midnight from an overcrowded room in KPD Foča, and before leaving he asked the other detainees for forgiveness with the word "Halalosum." He was never seen alive again.
Account of an event · Foča · June 1992 – December 1992
The Slovenian photojournalist Alojz Krivograd, known as Futy, set out in the summer of 1992 for besieged Goražde, but was captured by Serb forces in Foča. He has been listed as missing ever since, and according to available information he was probably killed near the Piljak pit on Mount Maluša. His body has still not been found with certainty.
Personal testimony · KP Dom Foča · April 20, 1992 – October 23, 1993
A protected witness, known to the Court of BiH only by the designation FWS-119, described life for prisoners in KP Dom Foča, where Serb forces held non-Serb civilians from April 1992 to October 1994. According to his testimony, the guards called out prisoners by name every evening, and many did not return. Deputy warden Savo Todović and guard commander Mitar Rašević were convicted by final judgment before the Court of BiH, and warden Milorad Krnojelac before the ICTY.
Personal testimony · Foča · April 1992 – August 1992
In the summer of 1992, a fifteen-year-old Bosniak girl from a village in the municipality of Foča was captured with her family and detained, among other places in the Partizan sports hall, where she was subjected to sexual violence. As protected Witness 50, she testified before the Hague Tribunal in 2000. The Tribunal convicted Zoran Vuković with final effect, among other things for her rape, and Dragoljub Kunarac for aiding and abetting torture and rape.
Personal testimony · Foča · April 1992 – April 1993
When the war reached Foča in April 1992, Witness 87 was fifteen years old. After the attack of Serb forces on Trošanj on 3 July 1992, in which her father was killed, she was held for nine months in a series of places in the Foča municipality and subjected to sexual violence, and was then taken to Montenegro. Her testimony before the Hague Tribunal contributed to the conviction of Dragoljub Kunarac and Radomir Kovač in the first case in which an international court classified rape and enslavement as crimes against humanity.
Alen Muhić was born in February 1993 as a child of wartime rape; his mother abandoned him immediately after the birth, and he was raised by Muharem and Advija Muhić of Goražde. Radmilo Vuković, whom DNA analysis established as the child's father, was indicted before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and convicted at first instance, but in 2008 the Appellate Panel acquitted him with final effect. Alen now speaks publicly about his fate and helps other children born of wartime rape.