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For Fatima, Rejha and Sabaheta, the loneliness began on July 11, 1995, the day Bosnian Serb troops took control of Srebrenica, a Muslim enclave, a United Nations “protected area”.
Their husbands, their sons, were killed in the massacre. Twenty years later, these three women are still looking for their bodies. The shells were falling everywhere. There were wounded, dead in the street.
Many people, women, children who were trying to flee. The men and the boys took the paths of the forests. Separated, recalls Fatima Aljic, 66, who now lives in Sarajevo. Her husband and two sons joined a column of about 15,000 men who began
a journey of about 100 kilometers to reach territory controlled by Muslim forces. Thousands of them failed.

Description

For Fatima, Rejha and Sabaheta, the loneliness began on July 11, 1995, the day Bosnian Serb troops took control of Srebrenica, a Muslim enclave, a United Nations “protected area”.
Their husbands, their sons, were killed in the massacre. Twenty years later, these three women are still looking for their bodies. The shells were falling everywhere. There were wounded, dead in the street.
Many people, women, children who were trying to flee. The men and the boys took the paths of the forests. Separated, recalls Fatima Aljic, 66, who now lives in Sarajevo. Her husband and two sons joined a column of about 15,000 men who began
a journey of about 100 kilometers to reach territory controlled by Muslim forces. Thousands of them failed.