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"I didn't realise what would happen," she tells me."I didn't imagine that the genocide would happen, that there would be a crime of such dimensions. If I had known, I would have run for my life and I would have saved my children from everything that came. I believed in civilisation. I made a big mistake.
In the nearby town of Bratunac, we are ushered into a large room, rather like a chapel. Around the walls are hundreds of photographs of Bosnian Serbs who were killed in the war. Complaining that they are marginalised by the Bosniaks, who make up about half the population, Republika Srpska talks of wanting to run its own affairs and even raise its own army.
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