In July 1995, identical twins Suad and Sead Mujic saw each other for the last time in Susnjari when they tried to escape from Srebrenica during its fall. Suad still regrets not saying goodbye to his brother that day, whose partial remains he found after the war.
Separated without saying goodbye
In July 1995, after the fall of Srebrenica, when the population was trying to get out of that area, Sead decided to go through the forest, while Suad went to Potocari, from where he managed to get to the free territory by bus. They separated few days before their 19th birthday.
“He left through the forest, we parted at Susnjari. He didn’t want to go to Potocari, I returned to Potocari. I didn’t even say goodbye to him. In that madness. I asked him: ‘Do you want to go?’, he says: ‘I will not.’ He couldn’t go, he was caught. I started walking, I didn’t even turn around. To this day, I still regret that I didn’t at least say goodbye to my brother,” noted Suad.
After moving to the free territory, on several occasions those who crossed the forest addressed Suad as if he was with them and knew what they were talking about.
“When some people from Srebrenica came, they said: ‘Do you remember that we were together?’ I said: ‘It wasn’t me.’ And I start to explain to him, he can’t say anything more, because he thought that I was with him. However, my brother was with him for sure,” says Suad.
While he never found the remains of his father and brother-in-law, Suad did find part of his twin brother’s bones.
“I only found his jaw and two upper arms from him. Found on the Ravnice, nothing more,” he says, adding that he also found the complete remains of his older half-brother.
The items he handed over, as well as his story, became part of the permanent museum exhibit at the Memorial Center in Potocari, Detektor reports.
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