Suvada Selimović

Suvada Selimović studied at the trade school in Vitinica.  She spent ten years living with her husband, with whom she had three children, in the village of Zvornik. On June 1, 1992, Serbs took her husband along with 700 other Bosnian men from the village, who were later all killed. This event was one of the preludes to the Bosnian War. Suvada Selimović took refuge in Slovenia , until the Dayton Agreement allowed her to return to her village, in 1995. Upon her return from exile, it was the women who rebuilt the houses.[2]

In 2003, Suvada Selimović launched a psychological support program for women living alone with young children who are victims of discrimination, theft and ridicule. The attackers were people, mainly from Sarajevo, who lived in their old houses, so they had to start a multi-year process to get them back. Suvada founded and led the organization Anima to work for peace and women's empowerment, but above all, to promote mutual help among women.[2][3]

In 2008, her husband's remains were found in a mass grave, in Crni vrh. He was later buried at the Gornja Kalesija Memorial, Šahbazi in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Suvada testified before the Sarajevo Women's Court to prosecute war crimes. In 2019, she appeared at a Humanitarian Law Centre press conference.[4] She has participated in several protests to denounce crimes and bring the culprits to justice, such as one in 2021 with the Women in Black.[5][6][7]

She was highlighted in the exhibition, "Peace with a Women's Face."[8]