Women Who Refuse to Die

Twenty years after the Srebrenica massacre, four Bosnian women look to the future despite the pain of their past.



Filmmaker: Mohamed Kenawi

In July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces killed an estimated 8,000 Muslim men and boys –all of them sons, husbands and brothers – in the small town of Srebrenica.

The Srebrenica massacre was a particularly inhumane and brutal act during the bloodshed and tragedy of the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995.



This film follows four women whose lost fathers, brothers and sons in the massacre, as they look to the future despite the pain of their loss and the angst of trying to make sense of the past.

“When they took away my children in 1995, they also killed me. This is no life. I walk about like a zombie. I’m alive, but not really,” says Hatidza Mehmedovic of the Mothers of Srebrenica Association.

“I had my family and after just one day I was left without them. Every morning I ask myself why. For what reason? But there is no answer. My children’s only guilt was the names they had. … They killed all I had, except for my pride.”