‘Postcards from the Grave’ (2017) a book by Bosnian journalist and politician Emir Suljagić on Srebrenica genocide of the July 1995 killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys has been published in Persian.
The book has been translated into Persian by Maysam Mir-Hadi. Ketabestan-e Ma’refat Publishing has released ‘Postcards from the Grave’ in 280 pages.
This work is the first account of the genocide in 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 Emir Suljagić 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.
Suljagić is a Bosnian journalist and politician who is currently the Director of the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial. He served as Minister of Education of Sarajevo Canton from 13 January 2011 until 29 February 2012 and was also Deputy minister of Defense from 31 March 2015 to 10 December 2015.
Source: IBNA