Chouinard worked in the intensive care unit during her first month, but she also joined an aid supply convoy in Kiseljak, where one of her fellow UN peacekeepers died.

“For me June [1992] was the hardest month, because we lost our colleague who got killed with a handheld grenade launcher,” Chouinard said, explaining how his death made her realise that even UN peacekeepers were not safe from harm in Bosnia’s war.

Investigators from Bosnia’s Missing Persons Institute who search for the remains of war victims have suffered injuries and contracted physical and mental illnesses while conducting exhumations in contaminated and dangerous terrains.

Before the trial started, the defence asked the UN tribunal in The Hague to order a halt to the proceedings against Oric, arguing that he had already been tried for and acquitted of war crimes in Srebrenica by the Hague court and should not stand trial for the same crimes twice.

This campaign hopes to counter human rights violations such as the refusal of Prijedor's local authorities to permit the construction of a memorial for the innocent civilian victims that were killed in the notorious concentration camp at Omarska.

The opportunities that I and the people with whom I had the honor to work had to try to end the genocide in Bosnia and make a new beginning, was one of the most important things that ever happened to me, not just as President, but in my life.