October 1993 | Voices from the Drina

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The Muslim people are being armed with the UN’s good will. The UN’s dropping of ‘aid packages’ onto the Žepa enclave was surely not a clean operation. No one could bring so many weapons into Žepa if they hadn’t come from the air.

Why are we allowing aid convoys to cross through Banja Luka, which will help the Ustaša? The Uštaše, Croats and Muslims shan’t receive a gram of salami, nor a can of tuna, until the Serbs are sent what they need. (1/2)

I want us to be just as harsh with them, so that they won’t have a chance of receiving anything. They won’t receive a piece of bread; let them think a little about their children. (2/2)

The Assembly of the Republika Srpska has unanimously voted to reject the request by UN peacekeeping forces for a ‘humanitarian’ air corridor.

Dad has been killed by Serb soldiers. My Dad is dead.

Remember I tweeted about UN soldiers paying for (group) sex with Srebrenica girls? One of the girls was thrown out of the UN observation tower unconscious. Now girls seeking cash for sex no longer go alone. Local boys are frequently acting as ‘middlemen’.

We got our results back for the UN English exam. I got a grade 2, the lowers score the UN accepts for interpreters. @suljagićemir got a 3. Čestitam, brate!

🧵 What does going to the ‘cinema’ look like in besieged Srebrenica?

Cinemas are in fact rooms, sometimes divided in two, with one or two TVs connected to a VCR. The films are part of the pre-war stock of Srebrenica’s video stores, and the price of entrance is two cigarettes or two tobacco leaves.

Imitating life, we queue in front of these cinemas, acting as if it’s nothing out of the ordinary. I’ve only been to one of these ‘cinemas’ once with my girlfriend. We watched Three Days of the Condor, starring Robert Redford.