Posted on Apr 27, 2024
An illegal migrant, age 17, drowned in a Bosnian river. Here's how citizens responded
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In Tuzla, the third largest city in Bosnia-Herzegovina, a group of citizens is taking responsibility to help.
"When the media speaks about refugees, they use numbers and don't speak of people with human rights," says Nihad Suljić of Tuzla, who helps families of lost migrants: "Maybe in Bosnia we better understand someone searching for their loved ones because we searched for thousands in Srebrenica after the genocide" – when some 8,000 men and boys were killed in 1995.
In Tuzla, the third largest city in Bosnia-Herzegovina, a group of citizens is taking responsibility to help.
"When the media speaks about refugees, they use numbers and don't speak of people with human rights," says Nihad Suljić of Tuzla, who helps families of lost migrants: "Maybe in Bosnia we better understand someone searching for their loved ones because we searched for thousands in Srebrenica after the genocide" – when some 8,000 men and boys were killed in 1995.
An illegal migrant, age 17, drowned in a Bosnian river. Here's how citizens responded
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Imagine that. A former soviet state doing better with immigration than we are
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Ajmal's mother is a widow. Her 17-year-old son, Ajmal, drowned in the Drina, a river marking the border between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia, on July 31, 2022.
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