The "Storm" is celebrated today as both persecution and liberation, a day for mourning and a day for celebration. Now that I am no longer that little Maya in Ruma who has nothing, I know the value of my own truth
My parents never allowed the trip to Knin and Croatia to turn into an unattainable nostalgia - for which I am extremely grateful - but stayed within the limits of visiting those who returned. They never talked much about the war and they don't, but were always guided by memories of the pre-war period of their lives. It was only at my great insistence that I began to receive testimonies from the war years over the years
Tanks and mopeds, self-propelled tractors and motocultivators, various types of tractors and heavy haulers, horse-drawn carriages attached to luxury "Mercedes", 13-year-old boys who have matured overnight behind the wheels of "jugić" or "tamić", crowds of old women in black move together in a column. crammed into tractor and truck trailers. From Oštrelje, from the command of the Second Krajina Corps of the VRS, I am sending the news that Croatian forces have entered Knin - this news has not been published by Tanjug until today
