How a genocide survivor in Bosnia and his years-long search for human bones continues to inspire hope
Filmmakers: Muris Beglerovic and Jasmina Djikoli
In July 1995, months before the end of the three-year Bosnian war and in violation of international law, the Serbian army marched into the United Nations' supported enclave of Srebrenica.
Led by General Ratko Mladic, thousands of women and children either fled Srebrenica to neighbouring Potocari, or were forcibly evacuated by the Bosnian Serb army. The remaining men and boys of the then majority-Muslim town were systematically tortured and murdered in what would come to be known as the darkest hour for Europe since World War II.
Over 8,000 men, some only children, were executed in a span of days; an ethnic cleansing. Hundreds of bodies are estimated to still be lost in the land surrounding Srebrenica.
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