Srebrenica survivor brings solace in quest for human bones - Salon
In this photo taken on Thursday, June 25, 2015, Bosnian Ramiz Nukic walks through ferns on a hill above his house, in the village of Kamenice, near Srebrenica, 150 kms northeast of Sarajevo looking for human remains. Theres rarely a day in which Nukic does not find the remains of at least one murdered boy or man, even 20 years after the Europes worst massacre since World War II. Srebrenicas killing fields swallowed up 8,000 bodies, and the murderers took pains... (AP Photo/Amel Emric) There’s rarely a day in which he does not find the remains of at least one murdered boy or man, even 20 years after Europe’s worst massacre since World War II. Srebrenica’s killing fields swallowed up 8,000 bodies, and the... Nukic’s quest started in 1999 after he returned to his empty hometown of Kamenice and began looking for the remains of his murdered father and younger brother. Every day he discovered bones that gave other families the gift of mourning, but not his own. Every day he kept trying, and quietly he built up an astonishing record: Nukic’s discoveries have allowed Bosnia’s Institute for Missing Persons to identify nearly 300 Srebrenica victims. Srebrenica was a Muslim town besieged by Serb forces in Bosnia’s 1992-95 ethnic war, in which Serbs tried to wrest away territory from Bosnian Muslims and Croats to form their own state. Source: www.salon.com
