HASAN NUHANOVIC

Hasan Nuhanovic was a former translator for the Dutch peacekeepers. Hasan lost his brother and parents in Srebrenica and is suing the UN and the Dutch government for criminal negligence. He has published his own account of the betrayal of Srebrenica, The Role of International Factors in Srebrenica – Chronology, Comments and Analysis of Events, on which he spoke at an international conference on Srebrenica held in Sarajevo in July 2005. The conference was organized by the Institute for Research of Crimes Against Humanity and International Law, University of Sarajevo, and opened in Potocari on the morning of July 11 in the same building where more than 5,000 Bosnian Muslims had sought protection from Bosnian Serb forces on July 11, 1995. In his legal case against the Dutch government, Hasan is arguing that the Dutch peacekeepers could have protected everyone seeking refuge within their compound.

 

Photographs of Hasan’s mother, father, and younger brother appear on the lower right side of the wall of “missing” photographs
displayed in the office of the Women of Srebrenica in Tuzla.