Srebrenica. Marš Mira

Every July, thousands walk the roughly 100 kilometres from Nezuk to the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Centre: the route of the 1995 Death March in reverse, when Bosniak men and boys tried to escape through the forests after the fall of the UN safe area. More than 8,000 were killed in the genocide. In 2016 I documented the march, travelling with Bauern helfen Bauern, a Salzburg aid organisation that since 1992 has built more than 1,000 wooden houses for war victims and refugees, mainly in the former Yugoslavia. Along the route, it provided the marchers with food and water. The march ends on the eve of 11 July, when newly identified victims are laid to rest.

Crowd of marchers with Bosnian flags at the start of the peace march

Column of marchers climbing a green hillside

Ruined, overgrown house along the route of the peace march

Marcher with an orange towel over his head against the heat

Man on a truck spraying water over the marchers

Marchers cooling off under a spray of water

A young participant bends over an exhausted marcher lying on a stretcher in the forest

Bauern helfen Bauern volunteers handing out bananas

A banana handed to a marcher by a volunteer

Two women in white headscarves looking up

Woman covering her mouth beside a concrete wall with barbed wire, Potočari

Rows of green-draped coffins with numbers before the burial, Potočari

White gravestones and an open grave at the Potočari memorial cemetery

Two exhausted young people sitting on the ground after the march