DID YOU KNOW?  -- Three years before the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide, Serbs torched Bosniak villages and killed at least 3,166 Bosniaks around Srebrenica. In 1993, the UN described the besieged situation in Srebrenica as a "slow-motion process of genocide." In July 1995, Serbs forcibly expelled 25,000 Bosniaks, brutally raped many women and girls, and systematically killed 8,000+ men and boys (DNA confirmed).

24 June, 2011

SREBRENICA REFUGEES, FORGOTTEN & LEFT TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES

Elderly Bosniak women Hasiba Ahmic, 72, left, and Naza Hasanovic, 68, right, sit in front of their shelter at the collective center for refugees near the northern Bosnian town of Zivinice, where she settled after Serbian fascists killed their menfolk and expelled them from their homes in Srebrenica.

Little Bosniak boy Alija Avdic, aged 2, sits on a swing watched by his grandmother Rahima Avdic, near their shelter at the collective center for refugees near the northern Bosnian town of Zivinice, where the Avdic family settled after Serbian fascists killed their menfolk and expelled them from Srebrenica in 1995.


Elderly Bosniak women Faketa Mehanovic, left, and Muniba Okanovic, right, wash carpets in front of their shelter at the collective center for refugee near the northern Bosnian town of Zivinice, where their family settled after Serbian fascists slaughtered their menfolk and expelled them from their homes in July of 1995.

Elderly Bosniak woman Halida Dudic, 52, gestures as she stands inside her shelter at the collective center for refugees near the northern Bosnian town of Zivinice, where she settled after Serbian fascists killed her menfolk and expelled her from Srebrenica in 1995.


Elderly Bosniak refugee, Kolkutovic Azemina, stands at the entrance of her house in Mihatovici, near Tuzla. Her husband was killed during by Serbian fascists during the ethnic cleansing of Vlasenica in eastern Bosnia. Pre-war Vlasenica municipality bordered with Srebrenica).

Bosniak refugee, Kolkutovic Seudin, sits in front of his house in Mihatovici, near Tuzla. His father was killed by Serbian fascists during the ethnic cleansing of Vlasenica, in eastern Bosnia. Pre-war Vlasenica municipality bordered with Srebrenica.

Elderly Bosnia women pray in front of the memorial wall with the names of victims the 1995 Srebrenica massacre at the Potocari memorial cemetery, near Srebrenica, on June 3, 2011. As the image of Ratko Mladic appeared on a television screen placed on a plateau in the vast Srebrenica cemetery, a stoney silence descended on the 20 women watching. Seated among the gravestones of the more than 4,500 victims of the Srebrenica massacre buried at the Potocari memorial centre, one of the women broke the silence, hissing: 'I hope God makes him burn in hell'.

Hatidza Mehmedovic, an elderly Bosniak woman, survivor of the Srebrenica genocide, prays in front of the memorial wall with the names of victims killed by Serbian fascists in July 1995. Photo taken on May 26, 2011 in Potocari near Srebrenica. Hatidza has burried her husband and two sons in the memorial cemetary in Potocari after ten years of searching for their remains amongst those gathered from various mass graves in Eastern Bosnia.