10/06/1992 | Voices from the Drina

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Some more info about the two known victims of the latest Serb bombings. Mother and son had been standing a couple of metres from the explosion when the bomb hit the concrete of the school playground. What remained of their bodies has now been scraped off the ground with shovels.

BREAKING: Reports of the latest Drina killings have been confirmed by eye witnesses, including the wife and daughter of one of the victims, Ibrisim Memišević.

BREAKING: evidence emerges of a “detention camp” in Batković, Bijeljina (NE Bosnia). Muslims and Croats from across N and E Bosnia are being detained by Serb forces.

🧵 I’m being detained along with other Bosniak men and boys in the Čelopek camp in Zvornik. We’re being tortured and forced to do things I’m struggling to write down. But I will because the world needs to know.

Today, Guard A ordered us all to undress. Then he ordered all sons to perform fellatio on their fathers. And vice versa.

While we were forced to do this, all the guards were drinking from bottles and laughing at us. They insulted us and forced us to sing Chetnik (fascist Serb movement from WWII) songs.

A 13-year-old boy was sitting on his father’s lap. Guard A approached them and asked if he was the only child. He answered in the affirmative.

Guard A then said, “You won’t have a son anymore.” He shot him while sat on his father’s lap.

We are living a hell that doesn’t seem to end. I don’t know if I will make it out alive.

🧵 We have no food in Srebrenica. So people are making perilous journeys for food.