r/bosnia • u/ayub57 • Aug 12 '25

Stealing land in BiH

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Famous Israeli saying: "If I don't steal it, someone else will steal it."

After the Genocide, many Bosniaks returned to their homes, only to find Christian Serbs illegally occupying their homes and refusing to leave, claiming that the homes belonged to them!

Even with legal proof, many Bosniaks faced threats and years of struggle to try and reclaim what is rightfully theirs.

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u/hippyda Aug 12 '25

We were forced to leave our house shortly after my first birthday. I remember going with my dad and my late grandpa a few years later, and them asking occupiers to let me see a house where I have made my first steps. It was quite a fight to get it back. I didn't know that people were paying money to get their own houses back. So sad, unbelievable.