Nationality is meaningless, says ‘missing’ Bosnian girl
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SARAJEVO — Mila Jankovic was 17 years old when life as she knew it changed forever. She discovered that everything she thought she understood about herself was wrong — and it made her want to die.
Raised in Belgrade as a Serb girl since the early 1990s, Mila — whose name means sweet or kind — was told she was really Senida Becirovic, a Muslim girl born in eastern Bosnia who had been reported missing since the start of Bosnia’s bloody 1992-95 war that pitted Serbs, Muslims and Croats against each other.
She had always known she was a foster child, but the reality of her origins came as a shock when she finally met her biological father.
“My father Muhamed came and told me my real name, that I was not Mila, that I am Senida,” the girl told AFP, recalling the episode in 2008.
Like many foster children, when Mila hit 16 she had one burning question: “I want to know who I am.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101120com3.html
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