[2] 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.
[2][4] By 1995, Serb forces had overrun much of eastern Bosnia and expelled the local Bosniak population in an ethnic cleansing campaign.
[3] In 2002, she moved back to her prewar home in Vidikovac, located just outside Srebrenica on the road to Potočari, despite memories of the war and massacre.
[2] She addressed both Bosnian and international audiences, including journalists, school students, human rights activists, neighbors, and politicians.
[2] She publicly condemned politicians throughout the Balkans who denied the Srebrenica massacre or supported ethnic or sectarian division in region.
[2] In November 2017, Mehmedović traveled to the Hague, where she was present in the courtroom for the sentencing of Ratko Mladić to life in prison for his role in the Srebrenica massacre.
[3][4] She also preserved a cement pathway leading to her house where Almir had written his name in freshly poured concrete by the front door.
[2] Her death was confirmed by Ćamil Duraković, her friend and former Mayor of Srebrenica, who called her a "tough, strong woman, an incredible leader in the largely patriarchal society in which women remain mostly in the background.
[5] Michael Brand, a German politician and member of the Bundestag who worked closely with Mehmedović, noted that she "fought like a lioness" on behalf of the massacre victims and their families, but "justice was her mission, not revenge.
"[3] He called her "a thorn in the side of people who to this day try to sweep the most serious war crimes under the carpet and rewrite history" and reiterated that without Mehmedović many details and perpetrators of the attacks in Srebrenica would have never been uncovered.