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Wednesday, November 29,1995
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War has taken toll on Bosnian men
Muslim town copes minus husbands, sons
The Associated Press
VOZUCA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Four months ago they had husbands, sons and homes in besieged eastern Bosnia. Today, their men are missing or dead, and they're alone in a strange village that a handwritten sign proclaims is a new Srebrenica.
"There are about 100 of us here from Srebrenica, all women and children. No men," said Sefia Hrustic, a 36-year-old refugee. "Maybe we can make this our home, if somebody lets us."
Vozuca is a scattering of brick and stone farmhouses along a muddy road that weaves through soggy fields of dried corn stalks and naked saplings. Once, it was home to hundreds of Serb villagers. Today, passersby would have to strain to notice it.
The Bosnian army pushed rebel Serbs out of Vozuca in September, scattering the city's residents into the hills. Three months earlier, barely 55 miles to the east, rebel Serbs overran Srebrenica despite its U.N. status as a Muslim safe area.
Some 8,000 Muslims, nearly all men, were captured or were missing around Srebrenica while their families trekked through the wilderness toward government territory.
An estimated 450 refugees made it as far as Vozuca and settled in the north-central Bosnian village, which the peace plan approved last week in Dayton, Ohio, would place under control of a Muslim-Croat federation.
The refugees scratched the name Vozuca off a sign by the road and replaced it with the handwritten word Srebrenica.
"I don't know if this can be the new Srebrenica or not. What do I know?" Halicovic said. "Wherever my neighbors and my relatives go, I will go with them. We have to live somewhere."
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...there are no
men. We cannot do anything here. If I die tomorrow, who will bury me?"
Fatima Merkilic
Bosnian woman
The towns couldn't look more different. Prewar Srebrenica had mansions, tree-lined boulevards and gardens, nestled in a valley near the silver mines that provided its wealth and its name — srebro means silver. Despite bleak Communist-era construction, the ancient town had maintained much of its charm until the war nearly destroyed it.
Vozuca lacks all of that. A few
pieces of clothing were draped over a rope in front of Hallovic's house in the hope they would dry in the foggy air. A stray cat scampered up steps leading into the dark interior of the cinder-block home. There was no electricity and no firewood. There were also no men
The loss presents a special challenge in the Bosnian countryside, where men traditionally work the fields, repair the holes in roofs and collect what little humanitarian aid charities are able to provide. Many of the women could not imagine performing such tasks.
"All I've got is one daughter-in-law, my daughter and me. There is nobody else," said Fatima Merikilic, 52. "There are no men. My husband was killed in Srebrenica and my son is lost."
"Everybody wants to plant food and raise food — we want to work this land," Halliwell said.
"But there are no more men," Merklic interrupted. "We cannot do anything here. If I die tomorrow, who will bury me?"
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