Sarajevo (AA) – Drine River between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia – one of the points of crossing illegal migrants to Western Europe.
illegal migrants who are drowning when trying to cross the river, are mainly buried in the cemeteries of unknown people, because their names and countries of origin are unknown.
As for illegal migrants buried in cemeteries in Belin, Brother and Clotics in Bosnia and Herzegovin, they write on the tombstones: “This memorial point was created in honor of migrants buried here. We will never forget you and your dreams.”
– several dozen people drowned in Drin
Nihad Sulik from Tuzla and Vidak Simich from Belin, organize in promotions to help illegal migrants.
Sulyich said that he has been working in the region for 7 years, and clarified that he is not an employee of any organization and is acting voluntarily.
He said that he first encountered illegal migrants at the bus station in the Tuzl: “I felt the need to buy food for them. Every day after work I passed the bus station and bought bread, water and fruits for them, and also gave information to them who goes to Sarajevo to go to the camps. “
The activist said that 2 years ago Afghan contacted him, who said that his relative had disappeared in the border area.
“He sent me a photograph and information about his relative. I went to the caller, and thanks to some kind people, the media and non -governmental organizations, we were able to find the body. The body was returned to Afghanistan after the completion of administrative procedures. When I tried to help find this The body, I realized that this is not an isolated case. I found out that there were several dozens of people who drowned in Drina while trying to move from Serbia to Bosnia and Herzegovin and were buried after that, ”he says.
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Vidak Simich has been working as a doctor in Belin for more than 40 years. He conducts an autopsy of dead illegal migrants and tries to establish their personality, taking DNA samples.
noting that the first bodies found were delivered to the pathologist, where he works, in 2015, Simich noted the following:
“At first it was one or two corpses a year, but after 2019 their number increased sharply, there were 8 or 10, most of them were found in the line of the Drin River. I try to be a good Christian and a good doctor. I believe that each body should find its own way home. I have preserved samples of the bones of all these migrants, about 40 people. Some of them were analyzed for DNA, identified and sent to our countries, we have not yet identified. “
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Having stated that he had an autopsy of 40 bodies extracted from the Drin River, and that their age was from 20 to 30 years, the doctor added that he decided to leave DNA samples for permanent storage.