Emir Memić carried the casket of his brother Avdjia today in Potočari and laid his remains in the grave. Avdija is the youngest victim among 127 victims that were buried today. He was only 14 years old when he was killed.
Emir is grieving since he was six years old, when he saw his brother for the last time before they were separated in Potočari. He could not even imagine he will not see his brother again. Emir remembers well his brother’s frowning and frightened figure, although he was just a little boy then.
“I remember everything well, seeing my brother Avdija and my father Emin leaving. I saw them going towards the woods, they were disappearing, and I kept looking. Although we have no pictures of him, I remember him as if I am looking at him right now. My brother would have been 35 years old now, he would have had his family, children… They killed an innocent child,” Emir says.
Even scarier is the fact that his brother’s remains are not complete. Avdija was buried without his head. He will be buried next to his uncle Abdurahman and his son Halil, whose funeral was also held today.
“We buried our father in 2010. When they told us they found him, I went to Tuzla. I saw he has no head. They told us that hardly any more of their bones will be found. In case more remains are found, we will exhume him and bury him again,” Emir says.
Their 66-year-old mother is having the hardest time now. She wished to bury her son Avdija while she was still alive.
“My mother cries for him every day. I do not know how she will survive the funeral, when I am laying his casket in the ground. She begged me to bury him although he has no head. That was her only wish, to go to Avdija’s grave, to know where her child is,” Emir said before the funeral.
Emir remembers that Avdija was wearing green pants and blue shirt on the day he was killed.
(Source: vijesti.ba/photo: vijesti.ba)
