Remember that SERBIAN boy who rode a tractor back in 1995, fleeing from the military operation “Oluja”? This is the story of his tragic destiny!

Today, twenty years since he and his family left his native village, his life keeps going downhill. Twenty difficult years...

People in trouble often don't know who to go to for help when in misery,  which is why Miloš Pajic (1985) came by yesterday to the editorial office of "Glas zapadne Srbije” (Voice of Western Serbia Newspaper) in Cacak, seeking help.

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His ill father's permitted time of stay at the Department of palliative care at the City Hospital expired which is why he asked for his parent to remain in the hospital just for another day, until he comes up with a solution, a place where he could transfer him to.

Tanjug journalist Ljubica Sokić explained Dr. Radoslav Milosevic, director of the Health Center in Cacak, this boy's troubles and this is when he allowed the patient to remain in the department until the end of the week.

Milos thanked them and trusted the journalist enough to share his life story. His brother Branko (1987), who was rather thoughtful, quiet and thin joined the confession.

Family Pajic had to leave their native village August 1995, just a few days after the military operation “Oluja” had broken down.

- We rode a tractor over Banija and Bosnia. My grandfather Milos after whom I was named, and myself – we were the ones to ride it the longest - tells Milos Pajic to the journalist. At the time, Milos was only ten years old.

Milos's father Stojan (1960) stayed in the armed forces in their village to defend his motherland.

- When we reached Banja Luka, we were told that we cannot pass any further on a tractor. They let us spend the night at the University and they gave us a lift to Belgrade the day after.

This is when their family tore – the grandparents and their daughter went to Irig, Milos and Branko with his mother in the resort "Zdravljak" on the mountain Jelici near Cacak. Not that long after their father Stojan joined them, who stayed for ten days in Kordon after the Republic of Serbian Krajina had fallen.

- We moved from place to a place numerous times.

Little Kordunas started working at the age of 15.

- I got a job in 2000 in the equestrian club "Milenko Nikšić" in Baluzi and from day one I lived on the racetrack, in one room. I earn 20,000 dinars a month and somehow fight life - says Milos.

What about his younger brother?

- I'm staying in a house in Prijevor near Cacak, it's at least a 100 years old, the walls are crashing down but I don't have anything better. I do what I'm offered, with an average wage of 200, 300 dinars, and that's what I live on - said Branko.

Milos continued the story.

- Our mother left us seven years ago, went to Slovenia and remarried, and my father still lives in the local office in Donja Trepca. There is where he suffered a stroke 19th of March this year, was transferred to the hospital and remained alive, but lost the ability to walk. He is a highly skilled machinist, he worked in the laundry of Cacak hospital for ten years.

Milos explains he doesn't have the luxury to plan his life ahead as he doesn't know whether he'll have a piece of bread to eat the next day.

- I was hoping to bring my father to stay with me at the track, but the club cannot do everything for me, they've already given me a job and a place to stay. Every day I'm making calls to the hospital in Guca, but there are no available vacancies. At the end I will have to find the money and lease a van to transport my dad to Irig. Hopefully, there he'll have my aunt and grandparents to take care of him.

Twenty years after having fled their village, life's been going downhill for the family... However, Milos remains hopeful:

- We'll fight this misery somehow. Hopefully...

(Telegraf.co.uk)