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MELISA VITEŠKIĆ was killed on 16 October 1992. She was with her father Edhem trying to get across the runway when the #Serb Forces shot her in the head.
Melisa was 12 years old.
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Melisa was 12 years old.
#SniperAlley #BosnianGenocide
Melisa's father described the details of her murder:
"Since the barricades in the city [April 1992], even in Ilidza, she lived with her sister and mother at her aunt’s and uncle’s place in ‘Bratstva i Jedinstva’ street, Pofalici, for security reasons.
"Since the barricades in the city [April 1992], even in Ilidza, she lived with her sister and mother at her aunt’s and uncle’s place in ‘Bratstva i Jedinstva’ street, Pofalici, for security reasons.
It was not safe in Butmir. She had already lived in the city for 6 months and they were running out of food and I as a father stayed in Butmir to defend the frontlines of defense. So I decided to go get them across the runway to Butmir to make life easier for them
NERMIN DIVOVIĆ was killed on 18 November 1994. He was murdered by the #Serbian sniper when he was returning home with his mother Dženana & sister Dženita. His mother was shot in the stomach, bullet went through and hit Nermin in the head.
Nermin was 7 years old.
#NerminDivovic
Nermin was 7 years old.
#NerminDivovic
He is lying in the Sniper Alley street, the UN firefighters who tried to help him are standing nearby, and in the version of the photograph that circulated most widely, the UN firefighters are shown in action, seemingly trying to block the area around Nermin.
Photo©️Enric Martí
Photo©️Enric Martí
Martí took a series of photographs after Nermin's killing in addition to one above, he took one at Nermin's funeral on November 21, 1994-an image that foregrounds Nermin's father, Paso Divovic, covering his face, crouched next to Nermin's freshly dug grave.
