Alija Mujic uses the December days, still without a snow cover, to prepare wood for the winter, since the snow cuts off his village from the world every year.
This seventy-four-year-old welcomes journalists with a saw in his hands. This will be his first winter that he will spend in a house in the village of Krusev Do, 50 kilometers from Srebrenica.
Until now, as he explained, he only came to the village in the summer from Dubrovnik, where he worked and earned his pension.
The village of Krusev Do is located in a hilly area at an altitude of about 1,000 meters. Snow and wind give its residents the same problems every year. At least for a month, as they say, the snow cover is up to two meters.
Until the beginning of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina(BiH), in the nineties of the last century, there were about a hundred houses in Krusev Do. They were all demolished, and the pre-war residents rebuilt about fifteen of them.
“Now there is no school, clinic, or store, and for everything you have to go to Srebrenica, which is about 50 kilometers away. The road is bad, full of potholes, and you have to go carefully and slowly, so sometimes it takes two hours to get to Srebrenica,” told Mujic.
A similar situation in village Luke
The villages of Krusev Do and Luke are the two furthest villages from Srebrenica, in the east of BiH.
Himzo Mujic pointed out that twenty years ago there were more residents in the village. Then a new school was built, which was never opened. There are children, but there are no teachers.
The last time the villages of Krusev Do and Luke were cut off from the world was in 2004.
At that time, the snow was two and a half meters, and the foodstuffs were delivered to the locals by a helicopter of the Armed Forces of BiH, Slobodna Evropa writes.
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