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but he tells me squarely that Diana’s visit gave him such strength, it has stopped him considering the same route.

“She told me the only way was up, I should not lose my spirit, I should not think my life was over,” he recalls. “When she came, it was like she brought an energy, strength, she imprinted it on me.

“When she said she would be here for me and she would do anything in her power to make up for what we had lost, it was like a mother saying such a thing to her child. Even 20 years later, she has still not disappeared for me, I talk about her and think about her almost every day. Her visit was a fork in the road, I could have gone one way, the way of others, and let the trauma get to me. I do feel her presence with me.” The Bosnia Diana visited in the summer of 1997, seven months after her visit to Angola to raise awareness of landmines, was estimated to harbour one million mines. They were vestiges of the country’s brutal three-year war, which broke out in 1992 after Bosnia Herzegovina’s independence from the former Yugoslavia, instigated by Bosnian Serbs and supported by the Serbian government. Malic was playing on meadowland close to his home, which had been a front line, when he steppe takes me there. Now, it is str haystacks where mines mosque’s call to prayer th breaking the silence where thundered.

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“I felt a very strong explosi was fire, smoke, warmth tha face,” he recalls.

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Then, when Malic did re prosthetic, it weighed a stag 12 kilos. “People would look differently, like I was a rob have never liked to feel p pitying me,” he says.

But Diana didn’t. Malic r “We were only told five m before she arrived a prince

Malic with mum Nevresa and dad Fahir, & pictures Showing his make-do prosthetic and, inset, cushion and glass used by Diana

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