Remains of the Aladza Mosque, after the war, Foca, Bosnia,

Empty site of the Aladza Mosque in Foca, six months after the end of the 1992-1995 war. The outlines of the foundations can still be traced among the weeds. The circle of shattered marble fragments is the remains of the mosque's ablution fountain. In 1992, Foca was overrun by Serb nationalist forces, who rounded up the town's Muslim residents (60% of the population before the war), killed hundreds of them, and kept the Muslim women and girls locked up in the town's athletic center which was turned into a rape camp. All 14 mosques in Foca were blown up and their ruins razed. The remains of the Aladza Mosque were bulldozed and trucked to the Drina, where tons of mosque rubble were buried on top of a mass grave dug into the riverbank. The mass grave, ca. 7 meters (23 feet) deep, was exhumed by war crimes investigators in Aug. 2004; beneath the rubble, they found the bodies of several hundred of Foca's murdered Bosnian Muslim residents.

Photo taken in June 1996 by EPIIC student Lucas Kello. This photograph was subsequently submitted as evidence in the trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic at the U.N. war crimes tribunal at The Hague.