Alema Dolamic, who first raised the issue the Bosnian women who left for Syria and want to return home, told N1 on Tuesday that she hopes her sister will be among the 24 persons that will be returned to the country on soon according to a November 29 Presidency decision.
The Presidency adopted a conclusion last week securing the return of Bosnian nationals from camps in Syria and Iraq, Security Minister Dragan Mektic tweeted on Monday along with a screenshot of the adopted document. The first group should arrive in the country this Saturday.
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“We families are happy about the decision by Bosnia’s Presidency and we hope our citizens will come from Syria as soon as possible. My sister and another two women are in camp Roj for more than two years already. They are tired of it all, they lost all hope” Dolamic told N1's Milica Vucetic.
Dolamic’s sister was the wife of Nermin Jahic, known for starring in an ISIS propaganda video which contained threats to Balkan countries.
Jahic took her and her eight-year-old daughter from Austria to Syria in 2014. There, he joined ISIS.
He died in February 2017.
Dolamic’s sister gave birth to two children while in Syria – in 2015 and in 2016. After her husband was killed, she was placed into a so-called house for widows of ISIS fighters, together with 80 other women and 160 children.
She tried to escape, and her sister sent her 1,500 Euros to help her. But she was tricked and left in the desert together with six children until Kurdish forces found them.
Dolamic has been contacting the International Red Cross, Bosnia’s Embassy in Jordan and the Foreign Affairs Ministry, pleading for her sister to be returned to Bosnia. She sent an open letter to Bosnia’s authorities in April this year, asking them for help.
“Nobody wants to speak about the names. We have no list, but we hope that what was announced will happen. We all want them to return. Every family that has a loved one there suffers greatly,” she said, adding that the families are “available to Bosnian authorities” in case they need anything.
“We only want our women to come here with the children. If my sister is in this group, I can only say that I can hardly wait to hug her and her children,” she said.
