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As a child I was on the last civilian bus from a besieged Sarajevo, women and children shaking with fear, leaving my father behind. This is what the Ratko Mladic genocide conviction means to Bosnian Muslims like me
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A drunk Serb soldier was addressing a bus full of frightened women and children, his hand grenades dangling menacingly from his vest and his Kalashnikov slung carelessly over his shoulder. Thank you, the women answered in shaky, trembling voices.
It was a hot April day in 1992. I was in that bus, fleeing Sarajevo with my mother and two brothers. Ours was the last civilian bus to leave Bosnia’s capital before the city was besieged by Bosnian Serb rebels and their backers in Belgrade, a siege which was to last nearly four years – longer than the siege of Stalingrad.
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