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This is a picture of the family from 2008 at Nermin's grave
Here is the original story...
Serbian Sniper Kills 7-year-old Bosniak Boy Nermin Divovic
By Srecko Latal
Lakeland Ledger, p.16A
20 November 1994.
Lakeland Ledger, p.16A
20 November 1994.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — One day after he was shot dead on a Sarajevo street, 7-year-old Nermin Divovic lies in the city morgue, awaiting the return of his soldier-father from the front line before he can be buried.
About 100 yards from the morgue, his mother Dzenana Sokolovic lies in the hospital, unaware her son is dead.
Nermin was shot in the head Friday by a Bosnian Serb sniper as he sprinted across an exposed area of Sarajevo-s notorious “Sniper Alley.” He was among more than 1,500 children slain in the city during the 2.5 years war.
Sokolovic, 31, was wounded by the same bullet that killed her son. “She doesn’t know about her child,” said Mediha Smajlic, a nurse at Kosevo Hospital, where the mother was recovering Saturday.
“Everybody’s coming here, but nobody’s telling her anything,” the nurse said.
Neighbors said Nermin’s father Pasa Divovic had been told of the death and was rushing back to Sarajevo from the front in central Bosnia, where he is serving with the Bosnian army.
Sokolovic and her children were returning home from her mother-in-law’s house when Nermin was killed.
Neighbors said Nermin was a “cute and clever” child who did not want to leave his grandmother’s home, where he had been playing, and asked his mother to let him stay.
But she insisted.
“He was crying as if he knew,” said neighbor Emira Vasijevic. “He said, ‘I don’t want to go, I don’t want to go. Let me play.’”
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ReplyDeleteThank you for your support and the work you do at Bosnian Genocide. It was a picture I had seen 100x at least, then coming upon the family years later it made me think of my own child and what that has to feel like as a parent. We have to deal with this terrible past before we can move on to a better future. I hope this helps give the family some closure and to realize they are not all alone.
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