The Brighter side of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Nermin

Bosnia and Herzegovina has got many brighter sides, it also has got the one I will never forget, the one I am bound with – the war … I am going to write all good things about this beautiful region, I am also going to ask my friends and their friends about nowadays Bosnia. So please stand by … and share your memories with me.
How was your morning,?
Nice ty ...how about you?
Mine as well :)I'm drinking coffee
You're at work?
Good for you..I am not working today
:)
I am dingking coffe with my mom
Get my greeting to your mum.
Shall we talk? I ask You some questions?
Thanks..
Yes we can talk now
:)
I have time
:)
You study politics, the most ridiculous think You learnt about the past?  Take Your time
The most ridiculous thing I have learnt is that foreign politics made things in Balkans as they are now...( war, crisis)
that is only wrong thing that I have learnt
we learn history till 1990.
and then history stops
kids don't learn anything about 1990s
How did it influenced your way of perceiving Europe? What is the feeling that suddenly the history stops, the world collapses?
That didn't influence on my way of perceiving Europe...but feeling is like confusion in most people ...nobody knows 100% real history, and everybody need to continue life after apocalypse..
influence*
It was not the best word, anyway - UN and NATO failed, they made a total failure especially in Bosnia, and I dare to write, they didn't have enough knowledge -- what they had at that time was futile.
I think that they knew everything but they didn't want their youth to die fighting in Bosnia...Bosnian and other Yugoslav wars were different from Korean, Vietnam , Iraqi wars...cause they needed to face modern army...fourth largest in Europe with modern weapons and strong air force...EU didn't have politician who was ready to risk lives of their youth..so they only watched what was happening
What was happening was dreadful, I agree it was a different war, unlike in Vietnam or Korea, the air strikes - was the option they chose. I live in Amsterdam, Dutch are very resistant, their part in UN mission in Bosnia is never spoken about. According to you... why?
Dutch battalion was located in Eastern Bosnia (Srebrenica, Bratunac, Zepa) where worst things in war happened and I think they feel responsibility now. They could do something because in 1995 Yugoslav (Serb) army didn't have threat strength they had in 1991 when war broke out
I mean - Srebrenica, for some people it will never be forgiven. Tell me about your town
How was it at that time and how it changed?
My town was not affected by war as Sarajevo or Posavine( north Bosnia) War target in my town was steel factory where Bosnian army produced weapons. Town was not devastated by artillery or air attacks but after war steel industry which had 23000 employees collapsed...Many citizens went abroad ( mostly Serbs and Croats) and refugees from Muslim enclaves took their places...City have changed but mostly due to economy collapse...


 

You were all lucky!!! Were you that time in your hometown?
Yes I was. But my parents are from small city from Posavina called Derventa which was devastated more than Vukovar in Croatia, but they also had luck cause my father got job in Zenica before war started ..so we were very lucky
Unbelievable! I am very happy to copy it.
My mother escaped from soldiers in a van with kidney disease patients to Zenica...war didn't started yet but they were signs...control points on streets and barricades
During the war it must have been a sheer luck. What would You tell me about other bigger cities not far away from your town, Sarajevo or Banja Luka, as well? My images of Sarajevo were those of a destroyed city, when I went there last year - I cried, it was not the same city, yet, the signs of war still remains. If you can tell me more about your friend, parents, how did they cope?
Banja Luka was not affected by war as Sarajevo that was luck for Banja Luka......Well i can’t tell my story because my friends were young as me then so I need to ask their parents....well when war started the plan of my father was to go to Belgrade where he had cousins...but when he tried to do that, borders were closed and all flights were banned so he decided to took the job and go to Zenica
but when he tried to go by car...soldiers captured hip and give him the uniform so he was in army for 6 month  my mother didn't know where he was. She didn't even know is he alive after a lot of time she received call from radio amateurs where my father was searching for us then he got information that we are in Zenica safe ..so he asked his cousin who was something in the army to give him permission to leave to join his family then he joined us
:)
Good. Six months in hell - Your father is a real hero, all of You - survivors!
Yes he is...
And my cousin has bizarre story
He was 17
People sometimes do not know what it is to be at the war zone, to survive the war, I put appraisal to ordinary people, who managed to cope, thrive, to survive, in such hostile conditions, soldiers as well -
So You were very young
Yes I was 2 years old when war started
I don't remember anything
better for me :)
Sure
It is your luck You didn't see what your father had to being in the army
He never told what he saw there...I think he saw everything in the war Especially in Derventa and all Posavina
After the war he got really ill and died in 2000
:(
I'm sorry :( I really am :(
My dad died in 1994 - in may there will 20th anniversary of his death, I never got used to it.
Yes it is hard to even now for me that he in not here
I think when we loose someone we love, we'll never get along with it. I can not.

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