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Alma Milisic

‘A true hell’: How three Srebrenica survivors defied death 30 years ago

A young Bosniak refugee from Srebrenica watches as other refugees pass in a United Nations armoured vehicle as they arrive at a UN base 12km south of Tuzla, 100km (60 miles) north of Sarajevo, on Thursday, July 13, 1995 [Darko Bandic/ AP Photo]

Before the war scattered his family, Nedzad Avdic loved geography.

He had just entered his teens. Growing up in the village of Sebiocina in Srebrenica municipality, close to the border with Serbia, Avdic could explain the difference between clustered and dispersed settlements. He learned how one could tell north from south by noticing which side of a tree the moss grew on, and discovered how to find constellations and navigate by the North Star.

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