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Q J Med 2003; 96: 781-782
© 2003 Association of Physicians

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The refugee’s tale

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Valentina and Aferdita are both refugees from the former Yugoslavia who see me at the surgery. Their stories, on the face of it at least, are very different. (I have changed names and some other details here to preserve their anonymity.)

Valentina is of Serbian Christian origin and comes from Sarajevo. She married her Bosnian Muslim husband before such liaisons mattered very much to anyone there. Then, during the war, ethnic rage and murderous insanity possessed many of their former friends and neighbours. As a mixed couple, they were regarded as traitors by both ‘sides’, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John Launer


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