I am an 18 year old Bosnian girl. I don't know what most of you are talking about. (Political mumbo jumbo), but I do know that Milosevic's Serbian Army (The Cetniks) killed my father, both my grandfathers, and my father's only brother. I won't talk about what they did to my dad, but my grandfather (from my mother's side) was tied up in a barn with a lot of elderly people, and they were burned alive.
Why were these things done to my people? Because of our religion!? They called us "Balije" and raped Bosnian women, beheaded innocent little children. It sounds unreal, but these things did happen. They killed thousands of innocent people! Genocide is what they call it. We suffered three years before the war ended. My father served 2 before he was killed. I was four years old when I was left without a dad. My baby sister was one. I have a few memories of my father, but the ones I have, are precious to me. My sister of course doesn't remember him, and I feel really sorry for her. Every time I hear somebody calling their dad or I hear the term "daddy's girl", I am reminded of my father. It kills me inside but I pretend that I'm strong. I still cry at night from time to time, thinking about what life would be like if the war never happened. How happy we would be. I cry because I miss my father, my grandfathers and my uncle. I was only 5 when the war "ended", but it still went on and I remember a lot, even though I was young.
I witnessed my best friend lose both of her legs by stepping on a land mine set up on a soccer field placed there by the Cetniks, targeting little kids. We would go for days without places to sleep or food to eat, because we were forced to leave our cities, our homes, with nothing but the clothes on our backs. We did NOTHING wrong. In fact we aren't even very religious people. I have never been to a mosque in my life. Most Bosnians are not very religious. We were friends with the very people who attacked us. That is the reason I am in the United States right now. Please don't say things like "Milosevic is a hero", because he is a person who ruined the lives of many innocent people, including my own. He used religion as a reason to create war, when in fact it had nothing to do with religion. He was a selfish and evil man, who started a war over land money and control, and used religion and politics as an excuse.
[/center]I wish people wouldn't talk about Milosevic at all because it simply angers me that he had a cushy life; from freedom, to prison. He died from drug overdose. Drugs that he had snuggled into jail to keep him "sick". He never was sick in the first place, but he made himself sick to get out of punishment. He had it good while he was there. He overdosed on accident and died. It's not fair that his family is rich, safe and living off the blood of my family and thousands of Bosnians. I want to forget what happened and live the rest of my life without being angry or sad. I miss my family and I always will, and them I will never forget the sacrifices they have made for me, but I want to forget about the horrible things I've witnessed and finally move on from the nightmare.[center]
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