Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
In 1991 in Srebrenica, there lived 37 213 people, of which nearly 73% were Bosnian Muslims and 25% Serbs. During the Serb invasion of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995) Srebrenica became an UN-supervised security zone that supposes to shelter thousands of Muslims from surrounding areas controlled by the Serbs. The surrounding enclave was to defend the Dutch UNPROFOR unit. On July 9, 1995, The Serbs launched an assault on the city. The Dutch branch did not take any defensive action, and the entire population of the town was in the hands of the Serbs now. The Dutch, having a strictly defined and very stingy UN mandate, were not able to defend the enclave effectively. This led to the concentration of the population, the separation of women from men and finally to the greatest crime in the history of post-war Europe...
In 1991 in Srebrenica, there lived 37 213 people, of which nearly 73% were Bosnian Muslims and 25% Serbs. During the Serb invasion of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995) Srebrenica became an UN-supervised security zone that supposes to shelter thousands of Muslims from surrounding areas controlled by the Serbs. The surrounding enclave was to defend the Dutch UNPROFOR unit. On July 9, 1995, The Serbs launched an assault on the city. The Dutch branch did not take any defensive action, and the entire population of the town was in the hands of the Serbs now. The Dutch, having a strictly defined and very stingy UN mandate, were not able to defend the enclave effectively. This led to the concentration of the population, the separation of women from men and finally to the greatest crime in the history of post-war Europe...
Grand Press Photo 2018 - Reportage - "People" category - 2nd place winner.
Mobile Photography Awards 2017 - Photo Essay - 1st place winner.
2018 International Photography Awards - Honorable Mention
Mobile Photography Awards 2017 - Photo Essay - 1st place winner.
2018 International Photography Awards - Honorable Mention
Burned house in Srebrenica.
Buses used for transporting men to execution places were lent from local villages.
The road from Srebrenica to Potočari.
Battery factory warehouse in Potočari. The funeral processions with the coffins of people exhumed from the mass graves of the Srebrenica genocide are moving to the nearby cemetery from here.
A woman counts members od Hasanović family. There are 311 of them.
Exhumations and identification of victims are still ongoing. Every year, on the anniversary of the commencement of the massacre buried in the graves, there are several dozen bodies...