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Filmmaker: Lode Desmet

The war in Bosnia lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. The same number of lives have been ruined and Nerma Jelacic wants those responsible brought to justice.

In the distance houses were burning.

I said the soldiers were coming and killing people so we fled into the forest

by Nerma Jelacic, Activist and campaigner for justice

At the age of 15 Nerma was forced to flee her hometown of Visegrad, a town which borders what at the time was Milosevic’s Serbia, because a young man called Milan Lukic had decided to ethnically cleanse it.

She describes chillingly what happened when one day a paramilitary unit under his command rounded up hundreds of her people, separating the men from the women and children.

We can only imagine the fear that Nerma and her mother must have gone through in what was clearly an ethnic cleansing exercise.

Miraculously that day they were spared, a fate others in