Hatidža Mehmedović (; 1 March 1952 – 22 July 2018) was a Bosnian human rights activist, survivor of the Srebrenica massacre, and founder of the Mothers of Srebrenica, an association of women whose relatives were killed in the July 1995 massacre in Srebrenica. Following the massacre of more than 8,000 Muslim Bosniak men and boys, including her husband and two sons, Mehmedović became a vocal advocate for bringing the perpetrators of the Srebrenica massacre to justice. Biography Hatidža Mehmedović was born as Hatidža Bektić in the hamlet of Bektići, near Sućeska in the Srebrenica Municipality. At the outbreak of the Bosnian War, she was a homemaker with a primary school education. She lived with her husband, Abdulah Mehmedović, and their sons, Azmir and Almir (who was nicknamed Lalo), in Vidikovac, just outside of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Srebrenica massacre By 1995, Serb forces had overrun much of eastern Bosnia and expelled the local Bosniak population in an ethnic cleansing campaign. Their objective was to annex Serb controlled areas to the neighboring Serbia. More than 40,000 people, mostly Bosniaks, took refuge in Srebrenica, one of the region's last enclaves outside Bosnian Serb control. However, the town was conquered by forces led by the Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladić. Srebrenica's women were evacuated, but much of Srebrenica's male population would be killed by paramilitaries under Mladić's command. Hatidža Mehmedović last saw her husband, Abdulah (aged 44), and sons, Azmir (aged 21) and Almir (aged 18), in the forested hills surrounding Srebrenica before their separation. She described her final parting with her family in a November 2017 interview with a Bosnian television station, "We were standing there and my young one, Lalo — that's what we called him, although his name was Almir — was saying, 'Go on, mother, go, leave, already' as he was pulling me closer and closer, and would not let me go... We thought we'd see each other in two, three days. We did not know they'd kill them all." Mehmedović was bused to the relative safety to Kladanj, a town near Tuzla. Red Cross officials later informed Mehmedović that her husband and sons were missing. More than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were killed in the massacre. Among the victims were Mehmedović's husband, sons, and her two brothers, Edhem and Hamed. Activism The remains of her husband and sons were later recovered within the more than