“Mladic killed my husband. He took away my friends, classmates, and neighbors. I saw children and innocent people die during those four years of siege.” This is how Kanita Ita Focak speaks, remembering the man who forever changed her life: Ratko Mladic. Born in Split, she has lived in Sarajevo since she was a child. There she graduated in architecture, got married, and had two children, Faris and Daniel. When the war began, the situation was unclear, Kanita recalls: “Our politicians told us ‘It’s just a misunderstanding, a mix-up, everything will be resolved.’” But instead, the war began to enter the homes of all citizens. In May, about a month after the first clashes, Faruk, Kanita’s husband, was hit by an anti-aircraft bullet while sitting in the armchair at home.
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An immense pain that Kanita still carries inside: “I can’t stand seeing that name so dear to me on a tombstone.” But the general who surrounded the city from 1992 to 1996 is today honored with a state funeral, a symbol “of the defeat of memory” and historical revisionism.
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What do you think about the state funeral granted to Mladic?
It’s a scandal. What saddens me most is that part of Bosnia continues to worship and glorify him, even young people who were not even born when the war broke out and the genocide happened. How can a butcher, a murderer, a war criminal be a role model for life?
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Why are there still those who praise a war criminal?
