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🧵 I’ve just survived a crime against humanity in my hometown of Višegrad. The perpetrators are Milan Lukić and his White Eagles unit. A thread.

We were all locked into a house. There were about 70 Bosniaks, mostly women, and children. The house was on Pionirska Street. It was set on fire.

The room had a couch and a closet and the carpets had been sprayed with something, which made the air very suffocating.

I could only recognise Jasmina in the room. She had her two-year-old son with her.

I saw Milan Lukić and Mitar Vasiljević from the White Eagles paramilitary group open the door. Lukić had some sort of device. He said, “Light it and put it down next to the door”. The device exploded.

Immediately the carpet caught fire and the flames stayed rising. People were crying and running from one wall to another.

When I jumped out the window, I reached within Lukić and Vasiljević’s range without a few steps. They shot my left arm and my whole body went numb. I thought then I was dying.

I rushed towards the nearby creek and I’m stilling hiding now against a tree. The last thing I heard before the noises stopped was the voice of a child who was 10 years old, Aida Kurspahić, who said her last words: “Mommy, save me.”’