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Susica Camp was a notorious concentration camp, operated by Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War. Bosnian Serb forces imprisoned Bosniaks and Croats in such camps as part of their campaign of ethnic cleansing against these populations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to the United Nations, as many as 8,000 Bosniak and other non-Serbs in the [...]

“My name is Emir Cica and I am 49. I am currently Country Director of the Islamic Relief Bosnia office. I work with local and international partners and many other different things. “I joined Islamic Relief in 2006, in the micro credit programme. I was a local officer, and it was my first job, and [...]

Tima is a 70-year-old survivor of the Srebrenica genocide. She is a mother to Nedzad and 3 daughters, Hurija, Amela and Inela. In 1992, her village was attacked, forcing her family to flee. “I had to leave because they set the house on fire. They killed whoever they could. We never returned. Whoever stayed was [...]

By 1995, the small mining town of Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, had already endured a terrible 3 years of siege amid the Bosnian War. Before the war began, 73% of the town’s population were Bosniaks and 25% were Bosnian Serbs. But, as the war progressed - and in the wake of Republika Srpska [...]