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 · Potočari · July 11, 1995 – July 12, 1995
Fatima Muhić was born in July 1995 on the grounds of the former battery factory in Potočari, where thousands of refugees sought shelter after the fall of Srebrenica. Her mother Hava never saw her, and her father Hajrudin did not live to meet his daughter. The child received her name only shortly before the burial on 11 July 2013 in Potočari, where she was laid to rest as the youngest victim of the genocide in Srebrenica.
Biography · Potočari · July 11, 1995 – July 13, 1995
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
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.
In July 1995, Ramiz Nukić survived the breakthrough of the column from Srebrenica toward Tuzla, in which his father and two brothers were killed. After returning to his deserted village near Kamenica, he spent more than twenty years combing the forests and mined paths, finding the remains of those who had been killed so that families could bury their loved ones. He died on 8 November 2022, at the age of 63.
Senad Beganović was fourteen years old when he was killed in July 1995 after the fall of Srebrenica. His remains were found on four occasions, between 1998 and 2007, in the Zeleni Jadar, Glogova and Budak graves, and in 2014 he was buried in Potočari next to his father. His fate shows how the bodies of victims were moved from primary to secondary graves in order to conceal the crime.
Rudolf Hren, a Catholic who came to Srebrenica as a three-month-old baby, disappeared in July 1995, after the fall of Srebrenica, while making his way through the forest with a column of men toward Tuzla. His remains were found in a secondary mass grave in Kamenica and identified in 2010. His mother, wife and daughter decided that he should be buried at the Potočari Memorial Center, among the people with whom he had lived and with whom he perished.
On 10 May 1992, Serb forces attacked the Bosniak villages of Suha and Mihaljevići near Bratunac, one day after houses in Cerovac and Polje were set on fire. In Suha, members of the Hodžić family were killed, among them nine-year-old Salmir and eleven-year-old Elvis. Salmir's remains have been found, while his family is still searching for Elvis's today.