Srebrenica
Natalia Dobryszycka | Bosnia and Herzegovina
Photographer: Natalia Dobryszycka
Exhibit Title: Srebrenica
Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina
From July 11, 1995 in Srebrenica, the safe zone protected by UN forces, Serbs killed in ethnic cleansing more than 8,000 Bosniak man. A dozen years after the largest genocide in Europe since World War II, mass graves are still being found and exhumed. In the mortuaries thousands of bodies await for identification, funerals take place, families of the victims wish to bury and mourn their relatives.
First mass grave is found. It's easier with the ones that were not masked at the end of the Balkan War; some (secondary graves) were moved to different places and camouflaged.
Than there is an exhumation. The bodies found in the graves are taken to the mortuaries,
In the mortuaries they are cleaned and pieces of bones are sent to the DNA research labs for identification.
Once a year, on the anniversary of the massacre, there is a funeral. Identified people are buried.
This work was not done for any newspaper or agency. I have done it because I felt I had to.
When I have visited Srebrenica for the first time I have found a grave of a boy who was 14 when he was killed. His date of birth differed about two weeks from mine. It's just that he happened to be in the wrong place.
Natalia Dobryszycka
mail: natalia.dobryszycka@gmail.com
phone no: +48 889 025 287
For helping me in making these photos I would like to thank IC-MP (especially Jasmin and Jasmina), Polish Military Contingent in Bosnia and Jasmin.
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