What if you survived the Bosnian genocide? [Rebroadcast Ep277]
1/6/20261 hr 4 min
From an idyllic childhood in communist Yugoslavia, as a teenager, Mirsad’s world becomes a living nightmare as the Bosnian War brings shelling, torture, murder and ethnic cleansing to his village, leaving deep scars that haunt and transform his life.
Today's episode featured Mirsad Solakovic. If you would like to contribute to help the Solak Gym (a charitable organization) that Mirsad helped create, you can donate through PayPal at solakgym@hotmail.com. You can see and find out more about the gym on Instagram @solakgym. You can also find out more about Mirsad on Instagram @mick...
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First 90 secondsWhit Misseldine· Host0:00
Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to exclusive episodes of This is Actually Happening by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. This is Actually Happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. (instrumental music) Hi, listeners. Today, we bring you the fifth episode of our annual three-week winter rebroadcast series. We'll return with all new episodes starting January 13th. Today's rebroadcast episode, What If You Survived the Bosnian Genocide?, originally aired as Episode 277 on May 9th, 2023. Today's episode features Mirsad Selakovic, a survivor of the Bosnian Genocide. Before we begin this episode, it will help to give some brief background of the Bosnian War, which is incredibly complex, and this will be a very, very incomplete portrait. But it will help give some context to Mirsad's experiences, and I encourage you all to research more about it. The Bosnian War was a three-year armed conflict that took place in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war was part of the breakup of Yugoslavia, a former communist country that comprised what is today seven different countries, including Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, Slovenia,