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Nura Mustafic

🧵 In the last few hours I have lost my entire family. I don’t know where I’m getting the strength to type this, but I will keep typing until I no longer have that strength.

I left Srebrenica with my children and husband. We were going to trek to free territory. A shell fell, causing us to run in different directions. I found my kids, all except my eldest Mirsad, injured. My husband went to get water. He never came back.

Alija and Fuad were with me. We were stopped by a Chetnik vehicle in Sandići. They told us the wounded would be transported to Tuzla. My kids and I surrendered. They loaded us onto a truck. In the town of Tišča they took Alija and Fuad away from me.

I told them, “my kids are injured”. I said I would come with them but the soldiers pushed me with a rifle and said, “they’ll come back”. Alija said to me, “Mum, go. We’ll come back to you.” My babies are gone.