After the disintegration of Josip Broz Tito’s Yugoslavia, a unified, multi-ethnic state formed in the postwar period, and a brutal war broke out in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) from 1992-1995 between the Bosnian Croats, Bosnian Serbs, and Bosnian Muslims or Bosniaks. The Bosnian Serb Army, backed by the Serb-dominated Yugoslav National Army (JNA), occupied 70 percent of the country, killing and persecuting Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats in an effort to create a Serb Republic. It is estimated that around 100,000 people were killed, two million became refugees and internally displaced persons, and more than 8,000 are still missing. It is also estimated that approximately 677 concentration camps, rape camps, and detention centers were established.

Photography: Midhat Poturovic