The Story of Adis Ziga

Adis Ziga was born in Yugoslavia in the municipality Rogatica on April 21, 1983. He grew up in the village of Žepa, which is located in Rogatica, and also became one of three Bosniak enclaves in eastern Bosnia that were surround by the Army of the Republic Srpska during the war. Adis has come forward to share his story and vivid memories of the war, the atrocities that he witnessed and his flight to freedom with his mother, sister and niece, while his father sought refuge in the hillsides surrounding Zepa and Rogatica, as had many other men and boys, in order escape the realities of the ongoing ethnic cleansing. The following is the first of two interviews we have conducted with Adis.