February 1994 | Voices from the Drina

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🧵 As the fathers of Srebrenica continue to wait for spring to arrive, so they may try to reach their partners and children, they think about the latter in particular.

In the last two years, their children have grown up, and their fathers think they’re growing up too quickly, that they’re looking too serious in those pictures which have been taken with the sole purpose of being sent to Srebrenica.

They carry these pictures everywhere, showing them to acquaintances, friends and relatives, once they’ve thoroughly cried themselves out whilst watching their thin, grown-up and thus strangely elongated children, recognising in them their own features.

They wait impatiently for the winter to be over. In springtime, when everything becomes green, they will get to free Tuzla through the woods.

🧵 Today I read the article published by that arrogant Washington Post journalist, John Pomfret. It did not in any way answer the question of whether the enclave was viable.

WEAPONS, CASH AND CHAOS LEND CLOUT TO SREBRENICA’S TOUGH GUY – The Washington Post

On the contrary, his article is related only to his conversation with Naser Orić. This frightens me. It’s a sign that the outside world is more interested in him than in Srebrenica.

This could mean only one thing: either we are finished, or we have been finished for months without realising it.

🧵 Today a 7-month pregnant woman arrived at the Srebrenica wartime hospital, in labour. After 3 previous miscarriages, this was her fourth pregnancy. A small baby girl was brought into the world, weighing 1500g (3.3 pounds).

As it is a harsh winter (it is in the minuses outside) and she is a premature baby, for her to have a chance of surviving she would need an incubator, something which a normal society has.

But since we are outside of society, we only have a wood-fired oven which the UNCHR has given to us, and this is acting as our incubator.

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