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Abdulah Halilović

🧵 I’ve just voted Yes in the independence referendum. It felt needed. This is a way for us to raise our voice.

I couldn’t wait for this moment, to have the confidence to say that I am a Bosniak, Abdulah Halilović.

Wherever we go as Bosniaks, we don’t dare use our own greeting, ‘Selam Alejk’, we don’t dare carry out religious ceremonies. This referendum is everything to us. It’s our chance to have our own voice.

I don’t know if there will be a war. But Bosniaks are not prepared in terms of weapons. I don’t even know where I can get something to defend my community with.

I know there’s a lot of talk of war at the moment. But I don’t believe there will be war in Bosnia. I don’t believe our Serb neighbours will attack us.

Srebrenica is under attack. I’ve fled. I don’t know when I’ll be back.

The Bosnian resistance has liberated Srebrenica!

🧵 We do not have the food we need. People are travelling to Žepa by foot. Or whenever there is a liberation action in a village, we’d get food. The most essential objective, whenever we tried to liberate a village, was finding food.

Before the war in the 1991 census there were 4,000 people in Srebrenica. During the war there were close to 40,000. Everyone among these 40,000 fought for their own survival.

I recently told Salih, a shop owner near us, that we have no money to buy more flour. He told me, ‘it’s not a problem at all. I have an old house with about ten or twenty alder stumps in the courtyard. Pull out the stumps and I’ll give you a bag of flour.

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