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No conflict or war bears guilt on only one side. Crimes occur wherever there are criminals—and they exist everywhere, just as there are good people everywhere. Still, the greater responsibility always lies with the stronger side.
In the Srebrenica area, local leadership emerged around Naser Orić, a former trainee at a police station in Belgrade who later served in the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (SAJ) in Kosovo and Metohija and became part of Slobodan Milošević’s security circle. Well trained and armed, Orić organized numerous raids on Serbian villages surrounding Srebrenica, during which many soldiers and civilians were killed.
This photograph shows a funeral in Bratunac in March 1993, where victims from the nearby village of Kravica—killed at dawn on Orthodox Christmas—were laid to rest. The image captures raw grief: women collapsing over coffins, hands clutching the dead, faces contorted by loss that defies language.
Later, Naser Orić and Slobodan Milošević were photographed together in The Hague, socializing during Milošević’s birthday celebration. That fact alone speaks volumes about the moral landscape of the war and those who shaped it from positions of power.
This photograph was published by the American weekly Time, accompanied by the caption: “Horror is a two-way street. Funeral of thirty-nine Serbs found in a mass grave in eastern Bosnia.”
Like many photographers, I want to believe that showing such scenes can cool heated minds and weaken the desire for war. I do not know if that is true. But I remain convinced that we must all do everything within our power to ensure that this never happens again.
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