The grief of Senad Medanovic, a Bosnian who returned to his newly liberated village and learned that his family had been massacred by the Serbs - 1995
The grief of Senad Medanovic, a Bosnian who returned to his newly liberated village and learned that his family had been massacred by the Serbs - 1995 KRASULJE, Bosnia-Herzegovina — When he fled the Serbian takeover of his town near here three years ago, Fudo Kestic, a 24-year-old Bosnian soldier, left behind a mother and sister. Today, having returned triumphant with the government forces that regained the town a few days ago, he faces the hard reality that his family is probably dead. “I knew what the Serbs were doing, so I had lost hope,” Kestic said Monday, after he found his home in ruins. “My mother and sister were there, and now they’re not.” As the Bosnian government reoccupies land that has been under tight Serbian control since war began in the spring of 1992, a new phase of accounting, reckoning and discovery is about to open. Muslim Bosnians are returning to ravaged villages in search of homes and the truth; the full extent of campaigns of “ethnic cleansing” that u...