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Thousands of refugees are still living under catastrophic conditions in Bosnia. Aid from the EU worth millions of euros has not reached them. Most of them are living in self-made camps in the woods.

 

Holiday Inn Sarajevo: In the Eye of the Siege

How international journalists found themselves in the centre of a bloody conflict they were determined to cover.

Originally opened as a glitzy VIP accommodation for the 1984 Winter Olympics, the Holiday Inn was the ground zero of the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s and became a fortress for the world's media covering the conflict.

On April 5, 1992, a peaceful march for Bosnian unity turned into violence which people think of as the official start of the siege of Sarajevo. The conflict lasted nearly four years and took the lives of thousands of Bosnian Muslims, Serbs and Croats.

Marchers were protesting against a worsening rift between the three main nationalist parties sharing power in Bosnia-Herzegovina - the Muslim SDA, the Serb SDS and a branch of the Croatian HDZ.

The Unforgiven: A War Criminal's Remorse

A notorious war criminal searches for the prisoners he tortured during the Bosnian War to seek their forgiveness.

Esad Landzo was convicted of torture, war crimes and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in The Hague in 1998.

He was a 19 year old prison guard at the Celebici camp in Konjic, Bosnia, notorious for abuse and torture of prisoners of war, many of whom were civilians, during the Bosnian War.

When he is released from prison in Finland after 10 years, Landzo is without a job and unable to get a visa from any other country.

Chasing Mladic: The Hunt for the 'Butcher of Bosnia'

People and Power examines the story behind the hunt for Ratko Mladic, Europe's most wanted man.

Ratko Mladic, Europe's most wanted man, was arrested in the small Serbian village of Lazarevo in May 2011.

He had been on the run since 1995 when he was indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal.

Mladic led the Bosnian Serb army through Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II. Together with political leader Radovan Karadzic the two men became synonymous with ethnic cleansing, the forcing of Bosnia's Muslims and Croats from their homes.

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.”