Serb refugees refuse to return home despite UN appeals
Published 01 March, 2008, 01:24
The suburbs of Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina have become home to a large Serb refugee community. People here escaped the Bosnian war, and are finally making a real life for themselves.
Many families came here 13 years ago, when the civil war between Muslims and Croats from the one side, and Serbs from the other started.
Serbs, afraid of ethnic cleansing, became refugees.
“I was at home, when Croatian army and NATO started to attack our village from air. We had to escape in order to survive, but my husband was against it. We had a fight. Eventually he gave up, but he couldn't put up with it. He died of heart attack in three years after we settled here,” Angelina Volich, a refugee says.
Nearly 250,000 people, who lived in the south-west, were forced to leave their homes and move to the east, close to Serbia.
