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(28 Aug 2026)
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Srebrenica, Bosnia - 28 August 2026
1. Various aerials of Srebrenica memorial site ++ MUTE++
2. Various aerials of praying by grave ++MUTE++
3. Aerial of graves ++MUTE++
4. Mid of tombstone
5. Mid of graves
6. Close of memorial stone
7. Various of people by memorial
8. Various of graves
9. Mejra Djogaz sitting at the table
10. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Mejra Djogaz, mother of victims of 1995 Srebrenica massacre:
"They killed my eldest son born in 1972, Zudi, Munib born in 1974 and Omar born in 1976.”
11. Close of Mejra's hand
12. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Mejra Djogaz, mother of victims of 1995 Srebrenica massacre:
"I wish he lived longer to suffer and to be in pain, but he left this world.”
13. Various of graves
STORYLINE:
A mother who lost family members during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre reacted on Thursday to the death of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic whose forces carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.
Mladic died Thursday while serving a life sentence for his crimes, U.N. officials said. He was 84.
The U.N. tribunal for war crimes committed during the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s sentenced Mladic to life in prison in 2017 in what was considered a key step toward bringing justice to the victims.
He had been in custody since 2011 after many years on the run.
"I wish he lived longer to suffer and to be in pain, but he left this world," said Mejra Djogaz, the mother of several victims of the 1995 massacre.
The ruthless, blue-eyed former communist officer-turned nationalist warlord was one of the most notorious figures of the conflict that left more than 100,000 people dead and over 1 million homeless.
He commanded his troops to “scorch the brains” of the Bosnian Muslims and boasted of being a “Serbian God.”
When the ethnic war in Bosnia and Herzegovina started in 1992, Mladic became the commander of the Bosnian Serb troops and took control of large swaths of the country to form a Serb mini-state.
Serbs under Mladic’s control laid siege to the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, and other cities and villages, established concentration camps for detained non-Serb civilians and enemy soldiers, and systematically killed prisoners.
In Sarajevo, Serb troops kept the city isolated while killing civilians with snipers and heavy artillery.
In 1995, Mladic’s troops slaughtered more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica — the first case of genocide in Europe since WWII.
But Mladic and his admirers have never repented.
He was seen by many as a patriot fighting for the first pan-Serbian state.
Defiant, Mladic acted bullishly during his trial and yelled at the judges when sentenced to life in prison.
AP video shot by: Almir Alic
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(28 Aug 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Srebrenica, Bosnia - 28 August 2026
1. Various aerials of Srebrenica memorial site ++ MUTE++
2. Various aerials of praying by grave ++MUTE++
3. Aerial of graves ++MUTE++
4. Mid of tombstone
5. Mid of graves
6. Close of memorial stone
7. Various of people by memorial
8. Various of graves
9. Mejra Djogaz sitting at the table
10. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Mejra Djogaz, mother of victims of 1995 Srebrenica massacre:
"They killed my eldest son born in 1972, Zudi, Munib born in 1974 and Omar born in 1976.”
11. Close of Mejra's hand
12. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Mejra Djogaz, mother of victims of 1995 Srebrenica massacre:
"I wish he lived longer to suffer and to be in pain, but he left this world.”
13. Various of graves
STORYLINE:
A mother who lost family members during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre reacted on Thursday to the death of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic whose forces carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.
Mladic died Thursday while serving a life sentence for his crimes, U.N. officials said. He was 84.
The U.N. tribunal for war crimes committed during the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s sentenced Mladic to life in prison in 2017 in what was considered a key step toward bringing justice to the victims.
He had been in custody since 2011 after many years on the run.
"I wish he lived longer to suffer and to be in pain, but he left this world," said Mejra Djogaz, the mother of several victims of the 1995 massacre.
The ruthless, blue-eyed former communist officer-turned nationalist warlord was one of the most notorious figures of the conflict that left more than 100,000 people dead and over 1 million homeless.
He commanded his troops to “scorch the brains” of the Bosnian Muslims and boasted of being a “Serbian God.”
When the ethnic war in Bosnia and Herzegovina started in 1992, Mladic became the commander of the Bosnian Serb troops and took control of large swaths of the country to form a Serb mini-state.
Serbs under Mladic’s control laid siege to the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, and other cities and villages, established concentration camps for detained non-Serb civilians and enemy soldiers, and systematically killed prisoners.
In Sarajevo, Serb troops kept the city isolated while killing civilians with snipers and heavy artillery.
In 1995, Mladic’s troops slaughtered more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica — the first case of genocide in Europe since WWII.
But Mladic and his admirers have never repented.
He was seen by many as a patriot fighting for the first pan-Serbian state.
Defiant, Mladic acted bullishly during his trial and yelled at the judges when sentenced to life in prison.
AP video shot by: Almir Alic
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