By — Andrew Mach Andrew Mach Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/find-peace-closure-grim-search-srebrenica-massacre-victims Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Audio It has been 20 years since Bosnian Serb forces attacked the town of Srebrenica, just months before the end of the Bosnian War in 1995. For sixteen years, one man who escaped Srebrenica massacre been on the search for his lost brother and father. NewsHour’s Stephen Fee reports. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. STEPHEN FEE: Most days, Ramiz Nukic trudges through the lush forests surrounding Srebrenica, searching for the remains of those killed two decades ago. He's not a government official or a humanitarian worker. Just a survivor. RAMIZ NUKIC: "There is no place I don't check. And if I find one bone, then I'm happy. Sometimes I feel sorry when I don't find anything, and I'm happy when I find it. Someone's family will find peace and closure with that bone." STEPHEN FEE: It's a grim recovery operation. And for Nukic, it's personal. After Bosnian Serb forces closed on Srebrenica, he and thousands of other Bosnian Muslims escaped to these woods. But an ambush killed both his father and eldest brother. Nukic hid in the bushes until the massacre was over. RAMIZ NUKIC: "When I collected the courage to come up there again, when I went there, I saw scattered shoes, clothes. The chills went through my body. I was speechless. Numb." STEPHEN FEE: Nukic's efforts have led officials to identify nearly 300 Srebrenica victims. Since the war's end, seven thousand bodies have been identified, a thousand still missing. STEPHEN FEE: It wasn't until this year that the remains of Nukic's father and brother were discovered –by someone else — in a mass grave nearby. He plans to bury his father today. RAMIZ NUKIC: "And I'm happy. Even though his body is not complete, I will bury him, what bones were left of him, and the rest? Only God knows." Listen to this Segment Watch Watch the Full Episode PBS NewsHour from Jul 11, 2015 By — Andrew Mach Andrew Mach Andrew Mach is a former Digital Editor for PBS NewsHour in New York City, where he manages the online editorial direction of the national broadcast's weekend edition. Formerly, Mach was a news editor and staff writer for NBC News. He's also written for the Christian Science Monitor in Boston and had stints at ABC News, the Washington Post and German network ZDF in Berlin, in addition to reporting for an investigative journalism project in Phoenix. Mach was a recipient of the 2016 Kiplinger Fellowship, the 2015 RIAS German/American Exchange fellowship by the Radio Television Digital News Foundation and the 2012 Berlin Capital Program Fulbright. He attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is a native of Aberdeen, South Dakota. @andrewjmach