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Through tears and in between fraught silences, Devla Ajsic refuses to remain quiet any longer.
Ajsic was 21 years old and three months pregnant in July 1995 when she was repeatedly sexually assaulted in Srebrenica while her fiance and thousands of other mostly Muslim men and boys were taken away and executed in Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II.
For decades, Ajsic did not talk openly about the horrors she endured after Bosnian Serb forces stormed the eastern Bosnian town in the waning months of the Balkan country’s 1992-95 war.
“I locked it all inside for 26 years and suffered in silence. I had no one to confide in, no one to share my pain with. … I cannot take it any longer,” said the now 47-year-old Ajsic, steeling herself as she finally spoke publicly of her ordeal on the eve of the 26th anniversary of the massacre Sunday.
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Survivors of Bosnia massacre grapple with horrors, deniers
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) Through tears and in between fraught silences, Devla Ajsic refuses to remain quiet any longer.
Jul. 10 2021 @ 11:05pm
Devla Ajsic looks through the ruins of a former battery factory in Potocari near Srebrenica, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 7, 2021. Ajsic, who fled Srebrenica after being sexually abused in July 1995, has returned to live there, but says she is still afraid to walk through the town because she never knows if the people she encounters in the streets are genocide deniers or even took part in it. (AP Photo/Eldar Emric)
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) Through tears and in between fraught silences, Devla Ajsic refuses to remain quiet any longer.
Through tears and in between fraught silences, Devla Ajsic refuses to remain quiet any longer.
Ajsic was 21 years old and three months pregnant in July 1995 when she was repeatedly sexually assaulted in Srebrenica while her fiance and thousands of other mostly Muslim men and boys were taken away and executed in Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II.
For decades, Ajsic did not talk openly about the horrors she endured after Bosnian Serb forces stormed the eastern Bosnian town in the waning months of the Balkan country’s 1992-95 war.
“I locked it all inside for 26 years and suffered in silence. I had no one to confide in, no one to share my pain with. . I cannot take it any longer,” said the now 47-year-old Ajsic, steeling herself as she finally spoke publicly of her ordeal on the eve of the 26th anniversary of the massacre Sunday.
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