Senad Medanovic, sole survivor of a massacre finds his home in ruins after the Bosnian army recaptured his village from Serb forces. He is standing on what is believed to be a mass grave of sixty-­nine people, including his family. Bosnia, 1995.

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wineddinedand69ed: Photographer Ron Haviv [tells] (https://vimeo.com/78697627) about the photo.

thrfscowaway8610: That’s only about ten miles from Banja Luka, capital of the so-called “Serb Republic” in Bosnia. An exceptionally dangerous place for any non-Serb minorities to be.

I was in Bosnia and the “Republika Srpska” on business about six weeks ago. Whole stretches of the country districts still look like this — burned-out or shot-up buildings, left as a public warning to any of the original inhabitants who may have survived: “Don’t think about coming back.”