6th April 2012th it will have been 20 years since the official start of the war in Bosnia.Children who were born in 1992. year, do not remember pre-war Bosnia. The DW-reportage and we noted that these 20-somethings to say about the country in which they live.
I come to Sarajevo with a clear mission: To make the story of the generation of 1992ndSpecifically about how young people today, were born at the beginning of the war in Bosnia, look at the multi-ethnic life.
At the point where we agreed to do an interview, deliberately chosen because of neutrality - at the Goethe Institute in Sarajevo - gather all: one Bosniak, one Croat, one Serb and one "non-aligned." Never before have not met. Blood cells were counted, the story can begin .
The difference between desire and reality
Enida Mekic a Bosniak from Zenica, Natalija Miletic from Kreševo Croat, Igor Kovac, a Serb from Pale. Do not remember pre-war Bosnia. Adults are the most ethnically pure areas. In today's multi-ethnic Bosnia and opportunities of life look different.
Children of War and the beginning of the war, I see differently
Speaking about the possibility of coexistence between Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats Enida distinguishes desire from reality: "I think I can live together. This is my personal opinion, although I think that all this is not accepted. Croats would still like to be alone, that the Serbs themselves, Moslems also. My wish would be that all along. "," Bosnia is a country in which the Croats want to live in Croatia, Serbs in Serbia, and the Muslims to be alone here, "says Igor. Natalia however the possibility of coexistence in which the Bosnians, Serbs and Croats to live with each other, not next to each other looks different than her peers Serbian and Bosniak, "Yes, I can live with each other, then together, not separately."
Nemanja Hodžaj is also a 20-year-old. I do not belong to any of the three constituent peoples. A child is a Serb and Bosniak. He describes himself as a non-aligned citizens of Sarajevo and Bosnian, but the possibility of living together in Bosnia looking najsumornije: "Serbs in the Serbian part of the Croats in the Croatian and Bosnians in the Bosnian part." For himself, but also all those who consider themselves Bosnians -Herzegovina, does not see a future in BiH, but on a neutral ground, which will be either Serbia or Croatia, or Bosnia.
Three of history in a history
Children of the reasons for the war's start, about the war, they know only what they heard from their loved ones or been taught in school. Enida believes that hatred was the reason for the war.Igor does not agree, but believes that blame for the war a few people. Fear him to appoint all the people he considers responsible. But on this particular occasion for war, according to what is taught in its history, said it was the murder of Serbian wedding party in Sarajevo. Natalie is in the history taught that the war began the attack on the village of East Hercegovinian straight. But it is with what he says her history can not agree, because he believes that 20 years after the war we can not look at what history tells a people, what tells the history of other nations. "In essence we all have a history," says Natalya.
United in pain
And that history, or history, despite the different interpretations is that in Bosnia there were three armies. Their fathers were in all three. Igor's in the Army of Republika Srpska, Natalijin the HVO, Enidin the BH Army. This same history or history says that during the war in Bosnia killed about 100,000 people, of which, according to the Sarajevo Center for Research and Documentation, about 66 percent of the Bosnians, Serbs, about 25 percent and about 7.6 percent Croats.
Natalija Miletic and Enida Mekic - Tears, silence, compassion ...
Among those who died in the line of the war and Enidin father. Life is lost, when Enid in her first year, in conflict with the HVO in addition Busovaca.
The moment you try to tell the story about his father Enid flood emotions. The more you try to resist them, that tears are becoming stronger. There are all silenced, as they are heard only Enidini sobs. In this vision trentku all sympathize with Enid. It is clear that all say something, but nobody knows what. While Natalie looks at the floor, Igor looks to the side, with Nemanja visual empathy facing Enid. Of course, it is clear that the father of all of them could meet the same fate.
Where reality begins to cease sorrow
"We must go on," says Enida. But what next? "What happened should not drag on. We have our own future regardless of what happened. It happened and it does not mean that it should happen again. What was not to be forgotten, but we need not now how to build something new, "he says. However, Enida openly and clearly states that no individual, but only a collective responsibility and the question of whether to forgive clear answers," I do not forgive, but just continue on. "
With such a situation, Natalie first met. Her empathy with Enid was more than obvious: "I am very sad. I admit this is my first situation that I experienced on the subject. I feel strong anger because of what happened and what is happening. "Igor's reaction was the same:" I'm feeling sad. Not even look like Natalia Croat or Bosniak as Enid, but I see how people are. I can not wait to After all this all together go to the coffee. "
(No) artificial creation
Nevertheless Igor says that will never be a Bosnian because, in his opinion, BH artificial creations.He says he would love her when he states' rights. Enida disagrees and states that BiH still all want for ourselves, that is, between the Serbian and Croatian are always conducted in accordance with the policies that are or would like to merge or split. For the Natalia BiH is a country whose foundations are its history. Not having a problem I'd seen in a complete history of the former Yugoslavia. It is believed that the problem dates back to the creation of that state, and that he just finally reflected in BiH.
Igor Kovac and Nemanja Hodžaj during an interview at the Goethe Institute
Our experts can not agree even about whether the war was aggression on Bosnia, or civil war. The Enid is clear that this is aggression. While Igor asks to whom it was aggression, Natalia is considered that it was in a general sense of aggression on the people who lived there.
When the mother country to forget their children ...
Enida, Natalya, Igor and Nemanja, members of the three constituent peoples and one undecided, disagree on many issues. But what they are is a unique empathy towards human pain, the view that in spite of all BiH has a lot of good people, but also the view that B & H as it is at this point, unfortunately, has no future. "It's hard to say that this country has a future. We do not see a way out," said Enida. Agrees with her and Natalya: "BH with such a structure has no future." Igor is completely the same opinion: "I see no general reason for optimism. In general," says Igor, while Nemanja ironically says: "There is the future, but it depends what kind." In accordance with this opinion and their view of their own future in this country. Natalie is the only one who wants to go, more precisely, to continue their education abroad, but still one day to return to "help his country." Enida, Igor and Nemanja see it differently because of it, says Nemanja, when the mother country to forget their children, then she should turn her back.
A coffee?
After the interview, go to lunch and a walk. My interlocutors suggest that all together visit the most famous religious buildings in Sarajevo. None of them had never visited a place of worship of another religion. And as we go towards the old Orthodox church I saw a shop with souvenirs for tourists, selling, among others, scarves Soccer / Football Ranking. Igor has said in interviews that never, ever, not cheering for the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the country team in which he lives. Completely spontaneously decide that his worship team scarf. I ask for permission and he accepts. Tomorrow is your birthday say. Could this be my birthday present, I wonder. Can he says. And then they both agree to it to carry Pale not, but it will hide in the room just as it hides its Serbian name and where it comes from when staying in Sarajevo, although it recognizes that a particular unpleasantness had not experienced.
Steps to a new tomorrow - Enid, Nemanja, Igor and Natalya on Baščaršija
After visiting the old Orthodox Church, the Cathedral and the Bey's mosque, bid farewell to the harem of the mosque. And while we go in opposite directions, the four of them on one, and I on the other side, I hear them talking: Hey, what do you have planned now? Are we going for coffee?
Author: Zorica Ilic
Editor: Mehmet Smajic
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