Alen

Waiter

“In a strange way, the war made my life more interesting. I was a poor kid living in a poor neighborhood when the war started. Our family had to flee to a different part of Sarajevo. We were like refugees in our own city. My father and my uncles fought in the Bosnian army defending the city. These days I try to concentrate on the present and the future, but I still remember everything that happened. One of my uncles was killed. The fighting was horrifying. You can’t forget that. I’m 100 percent sure that war will come again to Bosnia. The Serbs think we are lower than them. They hate us, and they still want to expand their territory.”

(Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Herzegovina)