Srebrenica’s forgotten refugees
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Thirty years after the war in Bosnia, survivors and their descendants find themselves permanently displaced in their own country. BBC reporter Lauren Tavriger visits the Tuzla region where families fleeing atrocities, including the Srebrenica massacre, have been living for decades in makeshift settlements originally designed as temporary. She talks to families about their experience, discovering why traumatised people are still living in a state of internal exile and reports on controversial efforts by the Bosnian authorities to clear camps and rehouse their inhabitants.
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| 0:00.0 | We're on a one-track path through just miles of trees. Kind of went down like a little dirt track |
| 0:09.6 | under a bridge. It feels like the end of the world a bit. You're listening to the documentary from the BBC World Service. I'm Laurent Tavriga, and this is Srebrenica's forgotten refugees. |
| 0:27.1 | This is your house? |
| 0:28.7 | Pita and I've been here. Did he go to do you know? |
| 0:35.5 | 30 years. |
| 0:36.7 | I've come to the Balkans in Southeast Europe to Bosnia. |
| 0:41.0 | You may have heard about its brutal war in the 1990s, |
| 0:44.4 | but perhaps less about how survivors and their families are living 30 years on. |
| 0:48.6 | She walked from Srebrenica to here and moved into this settlement in 1994. |
| 0:55.0 | How far away we from Trebrenica just for scale? |
| 0:58.0 | 100 kilometres? |
| 0:59.3 | Yeah, more, I think. |
| 1:01.4 | This is the story of Hezira, who you'll hear more from later. |
| 1:06.1 | It's also the story of Mersad, Nevena, Halida, and Abbas, survivors of genocide, who have spent three |
| 1:13.9 | decades exiled from their homes within their own country. |
| 1:20.0 | And at this point, a warning. Some stories in this program are traumatic and difficult to hear. |
| 1:28.8 | For me, this story started with a photo. |
| 1:32.2 | In 2023, I was on holiday in Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital. |
| 1:36.7 | I visited the photographer Tarek Samaraz Gallery, dedicated to the war and its aftermath. |
| 1:42.9 | That's where I saw it. |
| 1:44.6 | A simple shot in black and white. |
| 1:47.1 | A desolate tree-lined path just after rain. |
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