A Survivor of the War in Bosnia Recounts His Experience | FRONTLINE
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- čas přidán 18. 03. 2019
- Elvedin Pasic was 14 years old when his village was attacked by Bosnian Serb forces. His emotional story about the last time he saw his father was the first testimony in the trial of General Ratko Mladić - whose forces carried out the genocide of 7,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, among other crimes.
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In this scene from "The Trial of Ratko Mladić," the prosecution team prepares Pasic for trial and discusses his importance as a witness. His story “really demonstrates the way Mladić approached war and his willingness to commit terrible crimes,” said lead prosecutor Dermot Groome.
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when he said please find my dad...my heart broke into pieces. I hope this man finds his father...dead or alive, to bring him peace.
I still remember my mom’s scream just before her death. How she dropped when she was shot and how my sister and I hid under the bed with her on the floor next to us. I remember seeing her hair, blood and brain matter scattered on the wall where she stood.
The saddest part of all of this is the facial expressions of this war criminal he has zero remorse for all the human lives he has taken not even the children that have been killed can make this man regret his actions
I served in Tuzla, Bosnia from December, 1995 to June, 1996. I arrived there shortly after the war. It took some time for me to get used to seeing the total destruction of homes, buildings, neighborhoods, entire communities. I love the Bosnian people! I always will. War is not the answer. Peace IS!!!
We'll never forget. We'll never forgive. It was not a war, it was LITERALLY a genocide.
Croatian Croat, the trauma from this war has never left my family, I was born at the end so I did not have to live through it. What I had to live through was watching the trauma play out through my family and not knowing or fully understanding why or what. I to this day cannot and know I never will. Anyone who advocates for a war has never been near one. My all the souls lost find peace, and may god forgive us 😢
What a waste of life this war was. I’m a Serb refugee from Bosnia and, although my family suffered at the hands of Croatians and Bosnians in 1992, I can easily relate to the pain and suffering endured by them at the hands of my fellow Serbs. Any Serb, Bosnian, or Croatian that denies and/or justifies the killing, torture, rape of civilians and POWs by their respective ethnic group is no better than the fanatics and criminals that caused this conflict to escalate.
My dad was a Muslim taken to a concentration camp and I've seen and heard a lot during this war and most of it is true but there were many moments I remember of which some show a different side to all of this and I'm sure this has happened to many more people but it doesn't get shared because it's not as relevant or because of the stance that people hold due to what they experienced but I want to share some of the things that happened without any bias. One particular day I remember looking out of my window in the early hours of the morning and seeing one guy driving a van who broke the curfew to deliver bread to the shops so that people had something to eat in a Serb occupied city and I remember thinking this guy could get killed, he was the only person out at that time, later on the radio on that same day they announced that he was shot and killed by a sniper. Not that it matters but I think he was a Serb killed by a Serb sniper and I don't like to judge because maybe this guy who killed him was fulfilling his orders or maybe he was an evil individual but that is in Gods hands but in my mind this delivery guy was a hero may God grant him eternal paradise and maybe this is a perfect example of how paranoia and fear has forced us into these situations. I also know of a few Serbs who committed suicide before they were forced to commit some of these atrocities. My dad had Serb friends and while he was taken away they risked to come to our house to give us money to survive, my mother was scared to open the door and this guy slid a bundle of cash from under the door and said "give this to your mother". Also prior to my dad being taken to a concentration camp as this a was a Serb occupied city when there was news that Muslims fighters from the surrounding villages were planning to attack the city I remember we all went together (Muslims, Croats and Serbs) down into the building basement and one guy who was a Serb had an AK47 and he was first at the door of the basement ready to protect us all didn't matter what religion you were because we were neighbours. It was a big mess, the war was a result of politics, manipulation, paranoia and fear mixed with some nationalism and what else can you expect. Tito knew this was likely to happen but there was no system in place to prevent it from happening and the missed opportunity to do absolutely everything in your power to prevent this from happening is maybe the biggest tragedy.
My stepdad is from this village I think they are even family related because they have same last name.
Bosnia 🇧🇦 and Bosnian people just want to be left alone from Serbs and Croats and who ever we want to live in peace and respect others just leave us alone.
NEVER FORGET SREBRENICA!!!
My heart bleeds for the bosnia 🇧🇦 people 💔 😔 🥺🇸🇦
This made me cry man😞 being the 1st generation of immigrants this breaks rn heart knowing what my people went through
Man this is heart breaking, I strted crying when he said that he was dreaming of his dad, I know how it feel because I havent seen my mum in years
In my neighborhood in winchester,CA I've met Bosnian people and was neighbors with some. Amazing folks
Poor man. I hope justice is service to those war criminals
I have 2 relatives who were brothers tooken as hostages by their serb neighbour in the first days of the war. They were sitting in a coffe bar in the city when the serb neighbour came armed with a gun and took them at gunpoint to the Police station. The Police station was full of Serbian paramilitary memebers who were beating some Bosnian and Croatian civilians who were taken as hostages on that day in the city. These 2 relatives of me were tortured aswell, and a serbian paramilitary officer killed one in front of his brother. He survived after that months of concentration camps torture and was released later.. He is a an acloholic and literally brain damaged after he got released in 1992. I cant imagine what torture he has to go trough, but the worst of all it was an neighbour who you grew up with, whose father grew up together with your father up to do something like this.. That one hurts the most..
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Watch,there is no emotions in that demon