B.B.C. World Service and now witness history. The story you are about to hear contains descriptions of violence.

Just over 30 years ago, a shocking photograph of a starving, emaciated man

behind the barbed wire fence of a Bosnian concentration camp stunned the world.

The picture, taken from a television news report, was of a Bosnian Muslim called Fikret Allege.

Moments before it was captured, Fikret and I met for the very first time.

His face looked almost skeletal with its taut skin, hollow eyes, sharp cheekbones and angular chin.

Whilst I found his gallant appearance alarming, I also disturbed him.

When you came towards us, we thought you were going to murder us.

But when you came nearer, you told us not to be scared.

You said you were journalists and that you were here to do a report.

In 1992, following the breakup of Yugoslavia, ethnic Serbs and the newborn republic of Bosnia had

a governor with backing from Serbia, the Gala campaign of what they called ethnic cleansing

of people of any other nationality living on terrain they claimed.

They perpetrated atrocious crimes against Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian cried civilians.

Within three years, about 100,000 people were killed and more than two million were left homeless.

Fikret, a Muslim, was living in a predominantly Muslim town in the northwest of Bosnia.

It was surrounded on all sides by a mostly Bosnian Serb population.

This demographic soon turned Fikret and his neighbors into prime targets.

On the 14th of June 1992, the Serbs came to our village and began to cleanse

by snatching innocent people from their homes and imprisoning them in the Karaterim concentration camp.

That day, the camp guards killed whoever they could, from 16-year-old teenagers to 98-year-olds.

When we arrived at the concentration camp, the guards beat us up for around two hours.

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