FBU-2013-11-18
In: Oral Histories, 2006-Present, 2013
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Lived in a predominantly Bosnian Muslim part of the city of Prijedor called Puharska, Born in 1958 and grew up in a Yugoslavia that was easy going and the people united and happy with no signs of ethnic tensions, Father was employed as a machinist and mother was a stay at home mom, Remembers everything as being peaceful and friendships were shared between all people with nobody looking at religion or ethnic groups, After getting married in 1983 to a ethnic Serb and starting out with his own family life began to notice changes in the city, There was a lot of rallying against the Yugoslavian one party system of government, Never believed that there would be a bloody breakup of Yugoslavia especially in Bosnia since it had all groups of people living together, Began to notice the idea of Greater Serbia more and more being talked about on TV and among Serbian groups, After the War in Croatia started the JNA attempted to recruit him into the armed forced but he avoided the call along with many other Bosnian Muslims, The JNA now requested all weapons from the citizens of Prijedor which were mainly all hunting weapons and they were given up, Forces now Serbian and not JNA occupied the city of Prijedor and its roads, The patrols and roadblocks focused on parts of the city that had large populations of Bosnian Muslims, Curfew began for Bosnian Muslim population but retained his position in a factory as a machinist where he mostly just sat in his office since production supplies could not be found, Serbian coworker began to act different and would take every opportunity to showcase how they were better than Bosnian Muslims, One night heard gunfire and shouting and screaming outside but did not go outside out of fear, The next morning on the radio there was a call for all Bosnian Muslim to come out in front of their homes, Required all Bosnian Muslim to put a white armband on and place white flags on their roof, Burning of Bosnian Muslim homes began, Armored vehicles began to arrive with soldiers and people began to be ...
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Bosnia Memory Project, Fontbonne University |
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Zeitschrift: | Oral Histories, 2006-Present, 2013 |
Veröffentlichung: | GriffinShare, 2013 |
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