05/04/1992 | Voices from the Drina

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We’re back in Vlasenica. My Serb neighbours are leaving en masse. Their entire families leave in the morning, then their men return wearing uniform and carrying automatic rifles. I’m terrified.

BREAKING: Branko Grujić, head of Zvornik’s Serb ‘crisis staff’, has invited Serbian paramilitary forces to enter the municipality. This would be an invasion similar to the one seen in Bijeljina.

Mum answered the phone to her sister screaming & crying that Chetniks were coming down the hill twds my grandparents’ house (Zvornik), and that they were banging on the door. The telephone connection cut. Mum went into a meltdown that I have never seen from her before. (1/2)

She was shaking all over, crying and screaming, ‘Leave my children alone, leave my children alone!’ By ‘children’ she meant my brother and I. (2/2)