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Sisterly Hands in Bosnia: Women Take Charge in the Aftermath of War |
| Section: LIFE / COMMUNITY |
| Author: Andrea Warren |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1998 |
| Size: 2,571 Words, 15,759 Characters |
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Beba Hadeic knows firsthand the hell of war. A school administrator, she lived in Srebrenica, a Muslim city in Bosnia that was declared a safe haven by the United Nations. But on July 11, 1995, Serb soldiers occupied the town and rounded up eight thousand men and boys. Women, girls, and old people were forced to flee, and most made their way to nearby Tuzla. They learned later that their loved ones had been massacred and thrown into mass graves. Hadeic's husband miraculously escaped certain death when a Serb friend intervened on his behalf.
I met Hadeic, a slim, regal woman with dark hair, when I visited Bosnia in November 1996. Like so many of the refugee women of Srebrenica, Hadeic still lives in Tuzla and is not allowed to return to her homehome, since it is occupied by Serbs. Though...
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...are all Bosnians." No one really knows if the current shaky peace will hold in Bosnia. I believe it will. I met too many people there who are determined that there will be no more war.
A Bosnian woman told me, "All Bosnians feel each other's tragedies. We will not forget what we have been through. But we will also move forward to make sure it does not happen again. Life is in front of us."
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