This photo gallery is representative of some of the images from the war, war crimes, and genocide in Bosnia and are not intended to be exhaustive. Our hope is that they help to tell the story visually. Because we are conscious of trying to avoid triggering further trauma, we have organized this page in a way that as viewers scroll down there are warnings about the increasingly graphic nature of some of the photographs. For our Bosniak friends and all parents viewing this with their children, please keep this in mind. You may click on the images to enlarge them. The citations of the original photos are the bottom of the page and are used here for educational purposes only.
After this point, you may see images of war, violence, and bodies which may be difficult to look at for some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised.
The following are exceptionally graphic images.
1. “Bosnia’s Ethnic Divisions, Before and After Dayton Accords”, RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, created November 13, 2015, https://www.rferl.org/a/lasting-ethnic-divisions-in-bosnia/27363192.html
2. “Bosnia’s Ethnic Divisions, Before and After Dayton Accords”, RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, created November 13, 2015, https://www.rferl.org/a/lasting-ethnic-divisions-in-bosnia/27363192.html
3. Robin van Lonkhuijsen (photographer), “Radovan Karadžić”, Pool/AP Images, Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/event/Bosnian-War/War-crimes-and-trials
4. “Ratko Mladić”, photograph, Northfoto/Shutterstock.com, Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/event/Bosnian-War/War-crimes-and-trials
5. Art ZAMUR/Gamma-Rapho, “General Ratko Mladić”, Getty Images, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/13/how-the-hanging-woman-revealed-truth-of-bosnias-mass-killer
6. “Poll: Most Serbs Support General Accused Of War Crimes”, RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, created May 16, 2011, https://www.rferl.org/a/poll_says_most_serbs_support_general_accused_of_war_crimes/24176617.html
7. “20 Years Since The Bosnian War”, The Atlantic, created April 13, 2012, https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2012/04/20-years-since-the-bosnian-war/100278/
8. Kevin Weaver (photographer), HU 75044, Imperial War Museum. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205020581
9. Gilles Peress, “BOSNIA. Sarajevo. 1993.”, Library Artstor, https://library.artstor.org/asset/AMAGNUMIG_10311561414
10. Kevin Weaver (photographer), 1993, HU 75052, Imperial War Museum. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205020580
11. Kevin Weaver (photographer), 1996, HU 75050, Imperial War Museum. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205020575
12. Gilles Peress, “BOSNIA. Sarajevo. BOSNIA. Llidja. 1996.”, Library Artstor, https://library.artstor.org/asset/AMAGNUMIG_10311537698
13. Sam Bedford (photographer), “Apartment Blocks”, The Culture Trip, November 28, 2017, https://theculturetrip.com/europe/bosnia-herzegovina/articles/after-the-war-bosnia-then-and-now/
14. Ron Haviv (photographer), “VII”, Vice, https://www.vice.com/en/article/nn953m/photos-of-the-bosnia-war
15. “20 Years Since The Bosnian War”, The Atlantic, created April 13, 2012, https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2012/04/20-years-since-the-bosnian-war/100278/
16. Josef Koudelka (photographer), “BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA. 1994.”, Library Artstor, https://library.artstor.org/asset/AMAGNUMIG_10311568178
17. Kevin Weaver (photographer), HU 75050, Imperial War Museum. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205020581. This sixteenth-century bridge was destroyed in 1994.
18. Gilles Peress (photographer), 1993, BOSNIA. Sarajevo, https://library.artstor.org/asset/AMAGNUMIG_10311522773
19. Josef Koudelka (photographer), “BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA. 1994.”, Library Artstor, https://library.artstor.org/asset/AMAGNUMIG_10311565778
20. Northfoto/Shutterstock, “Bosnian Croat Man”, The Culture Trip, November 28, 2017, https://theculturetrip.com/europe/bosnia-herzegovina/articles/after-the-war-bosnia-then-and-now/
21. Lt. Stacey Wyzkowski/U.S. Department of Defense (photographer), “Bosnian conflict: destruction in Sarajevo”, Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/event/Bosnian-War#/media/1/1365562/145104
22. Kevin Weaver (photographer), BOS 204, Imperial War Museum. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205020544
23. Vladimir Velengurin (photographer), no title, Meduza, December 14 2020, https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/14/the-bosnian-war-in-photos
24. Robertson, “Sarajevo: Then and now”, CNN, https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/05/europe/gallery/sarajevo-then-and-now/index.html
25. Mikhail Evstafiev (photographer), no title, Meduza, December 14 2020, https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/14/the-bosnian-war-in-photos
26. Robertson, “Sarajevo: Then and now”, CNN, https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/05/europe/gallery/sarajevo-then-and-now/index.html
27. Robertson, “Sarajevo: Then and now”, CNN, https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/05/europe/gallery/sarajevo-then-and-now/index.html
28. Robertson, “Sarajevo: Then and now”, CNN, https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/05/europe/gallery/sarajevo-then-and-now/index.html
29. Laurent Rebours (photographer), no title, The Atlantic, April 13, 2012, https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2012/04/20-years-since-the-bosnian-war/100278/
30. Kevin Weaver (photographer), no title, Meduza, December 14 2020, https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/14/the-bosnian-war-in-photos
31. Paul Lowe (photographer), 1993, “A young girl plays with a ball in the street alongside the River Miljacka in a ceasefire during the siege on Sarajevo by Serb troops”, https://library.artstor.org/asset/APANOSIG_10313581963
32. Paul Lowe (photographer), 1992, “The siege of Sarajevo. Child playing war games,” https://library.artstor.org/asset/APANOSIG_10313581686
33. No title, Meduza, December 14 2020, https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/14/the-bosnian-war-in-photos
34. Michel Euler, “In Pictures: 25 years since Srebrenica genocide”, July 11, 2020, https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2020/7/11/in-pictures-25-years-since-srebrenica-genocide
35. Getty Images, “Bosnia’s Srebrenica massacre 25 years on – in pictures”, BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53346759
36. Michel Euler, “Scenes from Hell”, 1993, AP Photo https://apnews.com/article/massacres-ap-top-news-international-news-europe-photography-ec01765d17e8c27ead9c3f3ea6e6ca36
37. Michael Stravato (photographer), no title, The Atlantic, April 13, 2012, https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2012/04/20-years-since-the-bosnian-war/100278/
38. Mike Persson (photographer), no title, The Atlantic, April 13, 2012, https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2012/04/20-years-since-the-bosnian-war/100278/
39. Ranko Cukovic (photographer), no title, The Atlantic, April 13, 2012, https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2012/04/20-years-since-the-bosnian-war/100278/
40. British Army official photographer, BOS 32, Imperial War Museum. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205190359
41. Gilles Peress (photographer), 1993, “Looting..”, https://library.artstor.org/asset/AMAGNUMIG_10311567913
42. “Bosnian conflict: detention camp,” Encyclopædia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/event/Bosnian-War#/media/1/1365562/145102
43. Andre Durand (photographer), no title, The Atlantic, April 13, 2012, https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2012/04/20-years-since-the-bosnian-war/100278/
44. Sovfoto, no title, Meduza, December 14, 2020, https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/14/the-bosnian-war-in-photos
45. Kevin Weaver (photographer), 1994, BOS 243, Imperial War Museum. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205020563
46. Dado Ruvic (photographer), no title, The Atlantic, April 13, 2012, https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2012/04/20-years-since-the-bosnian-war/100278/
47. Francoise De Mulder (photographer), no title, Meduza, December 14 2020, https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/14/the-bosnian-war-in-photos
48. Joe Klamar, “In Pictures: 25 Years since Srebrenica”, https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2020/7/11/in-pictures-25-years-since-srebrenica-genocide
49. Kevin Weaver (photographer), 1993, HU 75053, Imperial War Museum. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205020579
50. Ron Haviv (photographer), 1995, “VII”, Vice, https://www.vice.com/en/article/nn953m/photos-of-the-bosnia-war
51. Reuters, “In Pictures: 25 Years since Srebrenica”, https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2020/7/11/in-pictures-25-years-since-srebrenica-genocide
52. Kevin Weaver (photographer), 1993, BOS 239, Imperial War Museum. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205020545
53. “Bosnia’s Srebrenica Massacre 25 years On – In Pictures”, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53346759
54. Robertson, “Sarajevo: Then and now”, CNN, https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/05/europe/gallery/sarajevo-then-and-now/index.html
55. Laurent Rebours (photographer), no title, Meduza, https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/14/the-bosnian-war-in-photos
56. Odd Andersen (photographer), “In Pictures: 25 Years since Srebrenica”, https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2020/7/11/in-pictures-25-years-since-srebrenica-genocide
57. Ron Haviv (photographer), 1992, “Capturing the Image of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia”, Balkan Transatlantic Justice, https://balkaninsight.com/2017/01/23/capturing-the-image-of-ethnic-cleansing-in-bosnia-01-19-2017/
58. “BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA. 2000. BOSNIA. 2000. Sanski Most village, northwestern Bosnia. September 25th. European Union monitors and Bosnian investigators identified six mass graves in northwestern Bosnia containing the bodies of approximately 240 Bosnian Muslims, suspected victims of “ethnic cleansing” by Serbian forces. Identification process.” https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/AMAGNUMIG_10311549568
59. “FROM THE FIELD: A Genocide Timeline; Srebrenica Massacre Remembered”, https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/07/1096092
60. Amel Emric (photographer), “In Pictures: 25 Years since Srebrenica”, https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2020/7/11/in-pictures-25-years-since-srebrenica-genocide
61. “Bosnia’s Srebrenica Massacre 25 years On – In Pictures”, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53346759
62. Mark Milstein (photographer), “Srebrenica massacre”, Encyclopædia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/event/Bosnian-War#/media/1/1365562/224455
63. “Bosnia’s Mladic orchestrated Europe’s worst atrocities since World War Two”, https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/bosnias-mladic-orchestrated-europes-worst-atrocities-since-world-war-two-2021-06-08/
64. “BOSNIA. Srebrenica. 1996. Grave at Pilice collective farm near Srebrenica.”, 1996, https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/AMAGNUMIG_10311520657