According to the indictment, around 16 or 17 July 1995, members of the Scorpions unit shot six captured Bosniaks at Godinjske bare near Trnovo, among them two minors, Safet Fejzić and Azmir Alispahić. One member of the unit filmed the execution with a camera. The recording circulated among soldiers for ten years, and after it was shown at the trial of Slobodan Milošević in 2005, the Scorpions commander Slobodan Medić and others were convicted in Belgrade by final judgments.
Personal testimony · Orahovac · July 1995 – March 1996
Fahrudin Muminović was six, perhaps seven years old when, in July 1995, after the fall of Srebrenica, he was taken together with his father to the execution site near Orahovac, close to Zvornik. According to the testimony of a member of the Zvornik Brigade of the VRS before the Hague Tribunal, the wounded boy rose from the pile of bodies after the shooting and was taken to the hospital in Zvornik. Fahrudin survived, and as an adult he testified before the Hague Tribunal about the genocide in Srebrenica.
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 · 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In 1992, at the age of twelve, Amir Topčić of Vlasenica lost his mother Aiša, his father Abdurahman and his brothers Seid and Suljo. Years later, the Prosecutor's Office of BiH summoned him to testify in a case concerning crimes in Vlasenica, and in the summons asked him to bring his mother with him, who had been missing since 1992.