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Pravda Bosna — Avdo Huseinović's documentary production

Documentary production
Avdo Huseinović

“Because forgetting is complicity in the crime.”

More than three hundred documentary films about the aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the genocide against Bosniaks and the people who defended the country.

Cellist Vedran Smailović playing in the ruins of Sarajevo's City Hall, 1992.
City Hall, Sarajevo, 1992. Vedran Smailović in the ruins of the library.Photo: Mikhail Evstafiev · CC BY-SA 2.5
Places of suffering
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336+
Documentary films
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77.800+
Subscribers
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30+
Years of research
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1992–1995
Period documented
01 — Archive

Films

Every film is a record of testimony. Documents, accounts of survivors and soldiers, archive footage — preserved for those who come after.

02 — Chronology

Dates that are not forgotten

Key events of the aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992–1996.

  1. 1 March 1992

    Independence referendumThe citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina vote for a sovereign and independent state.Films about this event

    Independence Day
  2. 5 April 1992

    The siege of Sarajevo beginsThe longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare.Films about this event

    1,425 days
  3. 6 April 1992

    International recognition of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina

  4. 25 August 1992

    City Hall burnedIncendiary shells destroy the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina.Films about this event

    Culturicide
  5. 5 February 1994

    First Markale massacreFilms about this event

    68 killed
  6. 11 July 1995

    Srebrenica genocideAfter the fall of the UN safe area, more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys are killed.Films about this event

    8,372 names
  7. 28 August 1995

    Second Markale massacreFilms about this event

    43 killed
  8. 14 December 1995

    Dayton Peace Agreement signed

    Paris
  9. 29 February 1996

    Official end of the siege of SarajevoFilms about this event

03 — Mission
The Pravda Bosna channel presents documentary films, reports and other video works from the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina and other parts of the Bosniak homeland.
Pravda Bosna — about the channel
Residents of Sarajevo queuing for water during the siege, 1992.
Sarajevo, 1992. Queuing for water during the siege.Photo: Mikhail Evstafiev · CC BY-SA

Pravda Bosna is one of the pioneers of documentary filmmaking on the aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the genocide committed against Bosniaks.

IBear witness for the victims
IIPreserve the memory of the heroes of the defence
IIIDocument the truth for justice
04 — About

The author

Avdo Huseinović
Avdo HuseinovićSarajevo

Avdo Huseinović

Founder · Director · Author

A veteran of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, journalist and non-fiction writer who has spent three decades recording the truth about the aggression and genocide.

He is president of the Bosniak cultural association “Pravda” and a member of the international expert team of the Institute for Research of Genocide Canada (IGK). His documentary films form a unique archive of testimony — part of this material has been used as evidence in war crimes prosecutions before the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Born
25 November 1973, Sarajevo
Service
Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Membership
Institute for Research of Genocide Canada (IGK)
Books
Four published books, 2009–2017
Recognition
Plaque of Sarajevo Canton (2015)

“Pravda” Association

Bosniak cultural association, Sarajevo

pravdabosna@gmail.com
Bibliography

Books

Avdo Huseinović's non-fiction on the war, its crimes and the heroes of the defence.

Dželati naroda mog — Avdo Huseinović

Dželati naroda mog

Non-fiction2009
Naser — od Gazimestana do Haga i nazad — Avdo Huseinović

Naser — od Gazimestana do Haga i nazad

Non-fiction2013
Stazama bosanskih vitezova — Avdo Huseinović

Stazama bosanskih vitezova

Non-fiction2014
Bosanski dan D ili slučaj Dobrovoljačka — Avdo Huseinović

Bosanski dan D ili slučaj Dobrovoljačka

Non-fiction2017
05 — Contact
pravdabosna@gmail.com

For collaboration, archive material and screenings.

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