Emir Suljagić is a journalist living in Sarajevo . His book is the first account of the siege of Srebrenica to be published in English by a Bosnian who lived through it . It describes how in 1992 , as a 17-year-old fleeing from the ethnic cleansing of the Drina Valley by the Bosnian Serb Army and its Serbian allies , together with his family he came to find shelter as a refugee in the besieged Bosnian Muslim/Bosniak enclave of Srebrenica . It gives an account of the hardships of daily life in the enclave and the personal impact on Suljagić , up until July 1995 , when Suljagić survived the fall of the town and the subsequent genocidal Srebrenica massacre in which over 8,000 , mainly men and boys , were killed by the Bosnian Serb army . As an interpreter for the UN , Suljagić himself was evacuated with the Dutch UNPROFOR battalion while almost every man he had ever known and many women too lost their lives
Srebrenica massacre
Srebrenica massacre
Postcards from the Grave