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In May 1992, while Serb nationalist forces cleansed the towns and villages of the Drina valley in eastern Bosnia of their formerly majority Muslim population as part of Slobodan Miloevis criminal attempt to carve an expanded Serbia from the successor states of the former Yugoslav federation thousands of fleeing, desperate people converged on the small town of Srebrenica in search of refuge. For many of them this would prove to be a fatal decision. Serb forces besieged the town for three years, undeterred even when it was proclaimed a UN Safe Area. As more and more refugees fled to Srebrenica from the surrounding villages, conditions there became unbearable: near-starvation, daily death, degradation of civilized life. The victims themselves were caught up in the dialectic of violence. Finally, after three years of agony, and as those sent to protect them stood by, Srebrenica was destroyed. In just a few days in July 1995 Bosnian Serb forces murdered some 8,000 people. Against all odds Emir Suljagi survived, while the lives of nearly every man he had ever known and those of many women too were wiped out. His haunted record of those terrible times offers a fitting monument to thos

Author

Emir Suljagić; afterword by Ed Vulliamy

Publisher

London: Saqi in association with the Bosnian Institute

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780863565199

Subjects

History, Historical Fiction, Education

Rating

2.4 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14