20 YEARS AFTER DIANA’S WAR O
SANJIN MATKOVIC MINE CLEARER IN BOSNIA
distance themselves from it.” We visit some families who live by the tape. Immediately beyond it, 12 mines have already been cleared. Father Jasmin Ferhatovic, 52, returned here after the war. He and his family rebuilt what had been burnt down by soldiers. Financially he had no choice but to graze sheep on the land and one day an animal stood on a mine. Despite his warnings, his young twin daughters were close by. “Ten sheep were killed and many more wounded. Thankfully my girls were OK,” he says. MAG’s work here is finally allowing him a sigh of relief as Sanjin and his team risk their lives to ensure his future. But this is slow work. “Diana did a great thing when shecame here, but when she left, the eyes of the world left, too,” says Sanjin. For more information, www.maginternal.org letter@mirror.co.uk