This is a real story from Srebrenica: Marinko and Adem, Serbian teacher and Muslim student, taught us what we didn't know about the war (PHOTO) (VIDEO)

Politics are temporary, and politicians don't care about Srebrenica as much as Marinko and Adem do

Everything can be done together in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Srebrenica, which was struck with genocide, even more. Real example of this are journalists from Srebrenica, Marinko and Adem. One is a teacher, and the other one is a student.

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Marinko and Adem. Teacher and student. Fellow reporters. And friends. 60 year old Marinko has a lot that he can teach Adam, but he said, technical stuff - computers and phones - Adam is explaining them to him. They entered in every returnee house. They know everything that can be known about Srebrenica. They are example of coexistence - and they are not the only ones.

- There are no Serbs, there are no Bosniaks, there are honest and fair people. They will help their neighbors no matter what their names are. You can see that best in winter days when snow falls in some places more than half a meter, so they care about each other, and in summer times, they work together on fields, no matter what they have been through. Its like that, people live simply with their problems, memories, consequences of war and they haven't given up on hating someone. Perhaps that is individual, but if that was true, people would't be able to function together, to work, to live - explains Adem Mehmedovic.

He was forced to leave Srebrenica in 1995, but he voluntarily returned here, three years ago, to live and work. And he never had a single problem with people, sad Adem. But he did with politics. It doesn't allow him to do his job. Due to constant shifts at the top of the Assembly, Adem always bothered somebody. His colleague and friend, Marinko Sekulic has only words of praise about Adem. And it is already said in Srebrenica that Adem is defended by Serb more than by any Bosniak.

- Adem came to Srebrenica three years ago. Since the first day we met each other thanks to work, we have been functioning normally and i knew some members of his family. He is Adem, and i am Marinko. We know who is what. He is a true believer, i am not. I have never been to church, nor mosque, not a single prayer. I am an old communist, as some say, but that doesn't prevent us from hanging out together, to work together, to share private stories, humane, as colleagues... Someone is probably bothered by that and that is why he said that i defend him - reveals Marinko Sekulic.

The same as Adem, Marinko left Srebrenica during war. But from other reasons. That wasn't, as he said, his war. He didn't want to shoot anyone of his own people, let alone the father of her wife Nermina. Rarely anyone speaks about the war in everyday communication of people from Srebrenica, said the both of them. People have difficult life. Politics is not helping.

- I am an optimist, perhaps even more than i should be, but i don't think about giving up. If i give up, i gave up on myself, and i can't give up on myself, so i can't give up Srebrenica - said Adem.

Marinko won't give up Srebrenica as well. He leaves books, articles. His stories about Srebrenica traveled the borders outside Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is preparing a photomonography - how this place used to look like.

- Srebrenica was a little heaven for those who grew up here, before the war. We had everything we needed. We have some things even the big cities don't have, we have a rotational scene in Culture Home, theater hall Tuzla would be jealous of, which has its own theater and long stage tradition, but it doesn't have what we had 30 years ago. It has natural riches 50 kilometers away, ores of iron, silver, lead, zinc, bauxite. The water flowing here was once sold in pharmacies as an official medicine for many illnesses, only God didn't give the brains to people to use it rightly, actually he did. Old people of Srebrenica knew how to use it, but natives are on the margin now, new politics arrived, new government and they think the world started when they arrived - said the experienced yournalist.

Politics threaten to close the radio. Politics would want separations. But politics are temporary, and politicians don't care about Srebrenica as much as Marinko and Adem do.

Watch the video HERE.

(Telegraf.co.uk / source: N1)