LOOKING FOR LIBERTY
I still remember
those few hours we remained in Georgia’s Valley, lost, without water and food and
with much cold I’d like to have been.
[...] We were walking
aimlessly, our only desire was trying to forget all we had lived and seen those
days before. It was such an absolutely awful memory. Only thing I was aware of
was that the more days we stayed in Sarajevo the more possibilities we had to
die. We saw how a father killed their children just to avoid that a soldier did
it. It was really devastating.
[...] Actually, I’m not proud of writing this, but it’s
necessary to know the truth. It was the Great War. We weren’t conscious about
what was happening, we just knew that in less than a week we were required to
leave our house, the place where we had lived for more than forty years. More
than half of all households in the city had been expropriated without any
reason or justification. Every day we saw lots of war planes overflying
Sarajevo and dropping mortar shells. No one wanted to die; most of the families
went into exile. The main problem was the cold and the food; we didn’t have
enough provisions to start a trip as such, notwithstanding, we did it. We initiated
that mad journey to nowhere. Mainly we escaped because of the crimes we had
seen, and of course, I didn’t want that my children died that way.
It was -18 ºC, all of us were absolutely frozen, besides we hadn’t eaten for two
days. Due to this situation we were devastated. At that moment I didn’t
know what was worth it; whether dying by freezing or dying by a gun bullet. The
only thing that kept me alive was my children’s hope. We didn’t know where we
were, although, we achieved to pass the border. Not all the families got it,
indeed, we were really fortunate. Afterwards, we found a little villa with a
stable, flawless to pass that cold night. We had managed to flee of that
horrible conflict.
[...] Nowadays, I’m
the director of The Old York Times, and I’m writing this just to assure myself
that our people know what many families lived many years ago.
David Almécija
2n BATX B
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