The Tribunal’s courtrooms have heard hundreds of victims tell what are often painful and tragic stories about what they saw and experienced. People of all walks of life -farmers, doctors, housewives, local politicians, mechanics, students, school children and many others- were victims of horrific crimes. Many of them were victims simply because they were of a different ethnicity from their attackers.
Many victims who testified before the Tribunal courageously related how they were either beaten, tortured, raped, sexually assaulted, forced from their homes, watched how their family members were murdered, or how they saw others fall victim to these terrible crimes. Here you will find some of their stories.
Witness O, a survivor of the Srebrenica executions
Grozdana Ćećez, a rape victim at the Čelebići prison
Emil Čakalić, a former detainee at Ovčara farm
Minka Čehajić, widow of an Omarska prisoner
Witness VV, a Bosnian army prisoner of war at Široki Brijeg, near Mostar
Ljubica Došen, whose husband was taken from Vukovar hospital and never seen alive again
Ivo Atlija, a witness of killings near Prijedor
Mirsada Malagić, whose husband was executed in Srebrenica
Dr. Idriz Merdžanić, who treated victims of the Trnopolje Camp
Mehmed Alić, whose son was taken to Omarska Camp and never seen alive again
Nedeljko Draganić, a torture victim at Čelebići prison camp
Ante Tomić, a former detainee at Omarska camp
Abdulah Ahmić, a survivor of the Ahmići massacre
Emir Beganović, a former detainee at Omarska camp
Witness E, a Croat from Vukovar
Habiba Hadžić, a former detainee at Sušica camp
Witness DD, who lost her husband and two sons in Srebrenica
Samir Poljak, who survived several Serb-run detention camps
Tanja Došen, whose father was taken from Vukovar Hospital and never seen alive again
Nedeljko Radić, a Bosnian Serb maltreated by Bosnian Muslim guards in Srebenica