Thread by @SniperAlleyPhot

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.

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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

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.

Enric Martí met Nermin, his mother and sister in December 1993. Gervasio Sánchez took a few photos of two of them, throw­ing snowballs and playing on the streets of Srajevo.

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Nermin, his mother Dženana and his sister Dženita in December 1993.

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Photo©️Gervasio Sánchez

The sweater he was wearing on a day of his murder is included in Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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In 2019, Sani Ramadanović made a model reenacting his killing and it's placed in the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina too.

klix.ba/vijesti/bih/hi…

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In 2015 they made a memorial for our Nermin.
It reads: "Not to forget and not to repeat."
On the 18th of November 1994 on this place, during the Siege of Sarajevo, aggressor's sniper killed seven-year-old boy."

sarajevotimes.com/memorial-to-ne…

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"The dead and the survivors are not numbers, they are unfinished stories. When I see a child, a teen or an adult that dies, I don't think of that person as an unknown, I think of what their lives would have been like if they hadn't been killed or wounded." Gervasio Sánchez

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Today marks 26 years since Nermin was murdered. He would have been 33 years old on the 14th of October.

NERMIN DIVOVIC 1987-1994

#InMemoriam #WeRemember #NerminDivovic

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