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Admir Jusupović

Please, everyone who is at the UN base in Potočari, do not panic. When you see Serb soldiers approaching, stay calm, and do not group together.

🧵 The Serb-enforced deportations, the final step in their “cleansing” of Srebrenica, are now complete. My job as UN interpreter was to ensure civilians everything would be alright, minutes before their brothers, husbands and sons were torn from their arms.

This scene will be engraved into my memory forever. I’m standing on top of the @unproforbih base building. The fog is halfway up, the sun penetrating through the fog.

You can see some glare, and, down on the ground, there are so many bags and bundles, the ones that people had carried with them, but were removed when they got onto the buses.

Silence, muffled silence. The realisation that there had been 30,000 to 40,000 souls and now there is no one.