After the Flood: Mines and Mass Graves in Bosnia 

The man describing how he felt when he handled the bones of the dead was very poetic and kind. He says he "thought of how much he enjoyed being alive........and they (the bones) were denied that." There was such a harmony in his statement as if to say, "we must have evil and death to appreciate kindness and life." How inspirational.

brave men doing the clean up job...luckily we have people in this world who actually care...may these men return home safely to their home and families every day..respect

Fact is that mean people after war ended, tried to hide mass graves with digging known graves and relocating them on other places. And because of that after 22 years we still cannot find our families, or we find bones from same person in different graves. I just remember that my father was good and brave man. After escaping from Serbian army, we crossed one old bridge with railroad and he couldn't leave people. He went back to help other people to save their families. When he tried to cross that bridge again few days later, Serbs were faster and killed him with 24 more people (youngest were twelve years old). 9 of them survived by running and hiding. We still can't find body of my father, his body is thrown from bridge to river. And today i love to go in nature and to fish, last train that went trhrough that palce is before war. Nature did the things, now bridge is falling apart, but when i stand on it it makes me real sadness and i feel cold. Like my bones are cracking and i m 50 kilo's heavier. After surviving the war, you don't look on people like MUSLIMS, KOREANS, AMERICANS, FRENCH, CHATOLICS etc., you just see GOOD PEOPLE and BAD PEOPLE. But where were GOOD people 1992'-1995'? Shame on the world and humanity. Look the Syria today, it continues year after year, and none stops it.

I'm Serbian and the only thing I saw in this video was just how trivial all of these killings were. Everyone here in the Balkan peninsula are brothers, that's what I love about living in London, my close friends are Kosovan, Albanian and Bosnian. We all stand united together when ironically our parents fled the fighting. I even have a Bosnian flag in my room as tribute to the resilience of Bosnians. Perhaps the next generation will not be so ignorant. We can only hope.

We don't want this war again. I have lost grandpa and uncle. WAR GIVES NOTHING GREAT, TO ANYBODY!!!

The internet warriors are still reenacting the war, I see.

This comment section is a good proof on how wars start, and why they even exist!

This interviewer needs to learn how do interview. She asks stupid questions. " Why is it important for relatives to have the bones back?" " Do you get used to the smell?"

The guy who tried to identify the bones was an amazing character. What tragedy and he will beat himself up, going through the reminders for as long as he can only to help other people find peace. That is a true example of selflessness.

Omg I hope they get them all safely. God bless Bosnia

It’s heartbreaking to see how emotionally destroyed and wrecked the surviving citizens are. Tragic.

sad to see the keyboard warriors keep the conflict alive from behind their screens, and don't respect the pain displayed in these short 15 minutes

But on a serious note, mines should be outlawed from being used in war.

Love you Bosnian ppl, Morocco loves you, Keep ur head up.

Wanna work in Bosnia for a while. I love Balkan cultures

Hoce da se svadjamo i poslije 20 godina. Mir i ljubav ljudi

My family came from Doboj, from a village. The translation was OK; however, not actually accurate.

Duuuuddde. My grandmother lives in that building at 1:01

You guys should visit Bosnia it may look bad on the outside but it's like a big family in the inside. People have always said don't judge a book by it's cover and people still are it's just sad

Love Bosnia from Pakistan 💚🇵🇰

Volim te Bosno.

8:20 „Ma jebem ti mamu“

5:25 for anyone wondering, that small car is a Škoda Felicia,you can get that car for 500€(even less)(working, used before of course),a pretty common car especially in Slovakia, greetings from Slovakia

I was posted here twice in the 90s the second time as security for the war crimes commission,I’ve never gotten over it and what a human is actually capable of doing to another,I still pray for these people to this day and will always god bless all those innocent people that had to endure this

*Translation correction* = @ 8:00 - He said that there was no further sight of the three brothers after they went on the bridge, not that they were killed off on the bridge. Just sayin'....

Both my parents are from Bosnia. Beautiful country. We are now in America!

Thanks for sharing!

damn man , real salt in a never healing wound. RIP and never again.

my parents are bosnian and they were teens during this time. crazy to think about it as ive grown up in america since they flew over here in 2001.

One of my pals got sent off to Bosnia as part of a mass grave clean up. He was only 18 years old and spent over a year removing bodies from mass graves, he estimated there was around 3,000 people per grave site

The worse thing about all of this is, there was no real justice. Convictions etc never brings them back. Nato who sat back for too long... Horrible times

War, War never changes

Quality reporting, thanks for that vice!

Thank you VICE.

That "throwbackthursday" billboard is sick!

One of Vice’s best pieces…

Sad...Brother Killing Brother. God give them peace and rest.

Wow! very heavy emotional feeling on all. I will pray for inner peace for Bosnia. Because God gave Inner peace to my Family and I.

Thank you for this Vice.

Brings back memories of my deployment in 2016 as Combat Engineer walking in single file to/through minefields.

I always found this conflict funny, because Serbians are more closely related genetically to Turks than any other ethnic group in the area besides Turks themselves.

thx vice. nice work

It all went south when Tito died. He kept everything together.

My DAD was born in doboj, in may 20th 1928. :) Passed away in april 20th 2007. :(

Watching this brings back a lot of memories, I was actually part of the UN peacekeeping force over there in the late 90s. The more things change, the more they stay the same it appears. I remember after the winter snow first melted, all the kids would come out and show us and even BRING us mines they would find during the spring melt!

"Do you love your job?" This is so typical. As if the situation is not clear enough. C'mon.

lol... if you've already found the mine, why not just set up a suspended shaped charge above the mine using a metal frame and detonate it? You could also just drive a de-mining tractor through it.

Question is, why are there still bombs after almost 20 years since war ? If you knew exact locations of bombs, why didnt you removed it before floods ?

I'm born in Doboj in 1990. In my village Svjetlica there are enough wodos with mines full. probably 4 square km not fully checked out with mines. There are many pathways wich you dont want to go and believe me even after 29 years you would find everything there, Because never went in those places after the war. We as kids always threw big rocks from the road in the mountain to play and we always thought we gonna hit a mine. Never did we hit but it was not far enough. What more scarier is that many people tear down the red signs with the skelet on it wich says ''Pazi mine'' (watch out mines). People blow up once in a while because they think its a shortcut to another village.

11:45 wtf over her shoulder hahahaha i was like "watttafak?"

1,300 unidentified remains of loved ones, civilians, etc.. So sad.. Vice's demeanor in that place - in that moment? 'Eww-wuh, so STINKY. Why would you work here, like OMG, PSHhh.. looooser.' Yep. This is what we have come to expect from them. What a disgrace.

i'm a Serb and i fell sorry for Bosnians

JigArkan Try sending that idea to vice on their website, or to their New York HQ. If any journalism company is going to do both sides of an issue, vice surely will be the one.

So unbelievably sad.

BOSNA MOJA DUŠA!

If you have never been in a mine field you could never acknowledge or understand what is around you and the amount of destruction what is caused by these deadly things good job trying to find these hidden things tough job ❤️

What's the name of the first soundtrack? Only the band is present in the credits.

This just makes me sad, humans can be so cruel at times.

Does anybody know what the music is at 14:36 ?

How convenient that mines and mass graves were kept so tidily separated. Some amazingly meticulous and tidy floods.

as a combat engineer, i wished we stayed more to clear out more mines.

Correction regarding translation. At 8:00 min mark Bosnian guy says " took 3 of his brothers and took them to the bridge and no traces of them from that point on " but you guys simply said they were killed? Maybe they were but don't state something hasn't been said. You know others know english as well as Bosnian.

So is Mostar. Was there and saw bullet holes in buildings.

2:02 it will, but until you step on one

The music wonderfully fits the vice short.

Is Bosnian language the same as Serbian? I speak Ukrainian and Russian and I understand about half the things they said, maybe even more I just have to take a few seconds to think about each word.

where are the NUKE them comments or are those exclusive to Africa and the Middle East.

"Throwback Thursday" *Picture of billowing smoke* Kek

That throwback billboard.

what is the music at 0:37 ?

This may be callous and in poor taste, but that song at the end...anyone know it?

Would the flood not detonate some of these mines, especially the anti-personnel kind?

What's the reporters name?

What happened to these people is inhumane and the people who committed these mass killings have no soul and don't deserve to be on the earth, when I see videos from the surviving people of these atrocities it makes me feel sad that it ever occurred, much honour and respect to you brave people and peace and happiness for you always 😊✌️🌹🙏

courageous men in front of the camera

That is a nice video.

You need to find new translator Vice, a lot in this translation is wrong. For example at 4:58 he says "Since the war is over 108 deminers have died in the line of duty. Kinda makes this video disinformative.

Why are all the Vice reporters so hip

Why don't they hang a large rock on a rope above it get a distance back behind a barricade and drop the rock on it to blow it up? Rocks and rope are cheap...

First, you send your reporters to meet up with ISIS. Now, you're sending them literally walking blind through a minefield. Vice must have one hell of an insurance policy. In all seriousness, I really respect the work these people do in going to these most dangerous areas and bringing us the stories that more mainstream media outlets are either unwilling or afraid to cover. Keep up the good work and please stay safe out there! Respect +1

Turns out most of the mines ended up in Ferguson, Missouri

Since when is Ellen a reporter for Vice?

How many times we say this ain't going to happen again.. I tell you.. it will happen, again, and again.. and..

Question, Why wouldn't the mines set themselves off after being moved by the floods?

Seeing what all that fighting did to those people 20 years ago when Yugoslavia broke up doesn't stop people from blaming people today and wanted them dead. It never ends

This is what happens when 10 empires chop up and misplace the native populations over and over. Balkan powder-keg.

This reminds me of The Bone Woman by Clea Koff. I just had to read that for school, very interesting.

nice translation 8)

There is peace now, although the scars are there for all countries, not just Bosnia. Why cant we just live like the brothers we once were? This hate is getting old

As a bosnian i live in mostar and i go hunting with mine father we go next to a little neighborhood and that neighborhood maybe one kilometer away is a mine field and we are scared to step on some places cause there are a lot of floods i fields and we dont know where the mines are

When they initially found the mines. Why the hell did they not take them out instead of Documenting them

The reporter looks somewhat like Kirsten Stewart.

Nobody helped Bosnia in the war,nobody,everyone wanted to take something from bosnia

So many graves, what country has lost more?

Yeah, that vest isn't gonna keep you safe from a mine.

Those vests look like they wouldn't work if they stepped on a mine

All I see in the comments is hate, either from Turks or from Serbs. People, war just sucks, stop blaming each other for it. It happened, and there is nothing you can do about it.

Tell that camerawoman, just stick to her job! Her job isnt to ask questions

This is clear evidence that a ceramic mine is the most effective mine.

For any one interested in this topic I highly recommend a very long documentary titled "The Death of Yugoslavia".