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Bosnian Muslim refugees pass through a United Nations checkpoint, May 1994.

began making lists of the children in our convoy, threat- ening to kill them first. “We spent three nights in our car without food. We saw and heard men being tortured by the soldiers. At night, the soldiers would shine flashlights into our cars while bragging of all the children they had already killed. We were all in terror for my four-year-old nephew. “Finally, we were allowed to go. When we reached Croatia, the Croats put us in a refugee camp where we

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