Sanela

Sanela, Bosniak and a Muslim, born in 1980 joined her father, who was working on Slovene coastline, in 1990. Due to the wars of Yugoslav dissolution the working immigration became permanent one. Now she lives in Ljubljana, graduated sociology, works in advertising.

What is your first memory of the war?

Actually, for some strange reason, it carved in my memory, the first holiday when we went back to Bosnia. We didn’t have car then, nothing, we traveled by train. And I remember in Croatia, I don’t know if it was a border or what, but I remember police units coming onto the train and I remember that fear of a child. It was the first time I saw armed men and the rest. I still remember it vividly. This is how I know we spent this one holiday in Bosnia [before the war], since … yeah, exactly! During the time we were away there was this two-week war in Slovenia. Therefore we went before, and when we were back they told us there was this war, they went to the shelters…