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The ghosts of Srebrenica are never far away.<\/p>\n

They continue to hover over and touch Bosnia and Herzegovina more than 30 years after the madness of July 1995, the summer when Bosnian Serb paramilitaries turned the streets and meadows and forests of Srebrenica into killing fields.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe soil here,\u201d a survivor once told the BBC, \u201cis soaked in blood.\u201d<\/p>\n

The same blood that pumped through Bosnian midfielder Esmir Bajraktarevi\u0107 as he stood behind the penalty spot March 31 at Zenica\u2019s Stadion Bilino Polje, the ghosts of Srebrenica filling up the night as much as the flares that lit up the sky in a smoky orange glow.<\/p>\n

Bosnia and Italy\u2019s playoff match for a final spot in the World Cup had come down to this moment at the end of a sudden-death penalty kick shootout. If Bajraktarevi\u0107, the 21-year-old from Appleton, Wisconsin, could slip his penalty kick past Italy\u2019s Gianluigi Donnarumma, one of the best goalkeepers in the world, Bosnia and Herzegovina would return to the World Cup for the first time since 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere it is. I can win it,\u201d he told himself, knowing full well that for Bosnia there was so much more than a World Cup spot on the line.<\/p>\n

Bajraktarevic is the son of Bosnian Muslim parents, refugees who fled the Srebrenica massacre in which more than 8,300 Bosniak Muslim men and boys were slaughtered in July 1995, Europe\u2019s first legally recognized genocide since World War II. Among the massacre\u2019s victims were the grandfather, uncles and ghosts of Srebrenica that Bajraktarevic would never know.<\/p>\n

\u201cSrebrenica is a part of me,\u201d Bajraktarevic said. \u201cI carry it in my blood.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Soccer has been called the \u201cSimple Game.\u201d Yet for all of the game\u2019s simplistic beauty, the World Cup is also a reflection of the place and time in which it is held and the decades and centuries its participants have traveled through; apartheid and colonialism, the Falklands, the Middle East, the Balkans often looming over the tournament even from continents away.<\/p>\n

So the ghosts of Srebrenica have followed Bajraktarevic and Bosnia and Herzegovina to this World Cup and their Group B match with Switzerland at noon Thursday in Inglewood.<\/p>\n

Author Amela Koluder, herself a former Bosnian refugee, has written: \u201cA refugee is someone who survived and who can create the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Bosnian, Bajraktarevic translates to flag bearer. In driving his penalty kick past Donnarumma that night in Zenica, Bajraktarevic not only sent Bosnia and Herzegovina into the World Cup, he showed the country a way forward, leading it on a path to a future full of promise and hope.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe objective of the genocide against Bosniaks in eastern Bosnia was not simply to kill people in the present; it was to destroy a community\u2019s future,\u201d Emir Suljagic, director of the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial and the country\u2019s former deputy defense minister, told the Southern California News Group. \u201cThe men and boys of Srebrenica were murdered, families were shattered, entire populations were expelled from their homes. Esmir\u2019s story reminds us that genocide is ultimately an assault on continuity \u2013 on children, grandchildren and generations yet unborn.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is why this moment resonated so deeply. Esmir is not remarkable because he is a victim\u2019s descendant. He is remarkable because, despite everything that was done to his family and his people, he grew up, pursued his dreams and succeeded at the highest level. The laughter, joy and achievements of young Bosnians today are proof that the project of extermination failed. Life prevailed where others intended death.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s in my blood\u2019<\/h4>\n

The World Cup also holds healing powers, providing nations a platform to redefine themselves before a watching world. And so Koluder is right \u2013 Bajraktarevic and Bosnia\u2019s journey is really a survivor\u2019s tale told by the child of refugees, a child determined that the final chapter of his family\u2019s story, his nation\u2019s story, would not be written by a monster.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Esmir\u2019s story says anything,\u201d Suljagic said, \u201cit is that the future belongs to those who survived and rebuilt, not to those who tried to destroy them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bajraktarevic\u2019s parents, Elmer and Emina, were born in Srebrenica, a small mining town \u2013 whose name literally means silver mining \u2013 in the mountains of eastern Bosnia near the Serbian border.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy parents lost a good part of their family,\u201d Bajraktarevic recently told reporters. \u201cIt\u2019s a tragedy and something I will never forget. Srebrenica is something I will never forget. It\u2019s a part of me and who I am. It\u2019s in my blood.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bosnian War started April 6, 1992, after the international recognition of the independent Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina following the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Eighteen days later, General Ratko Mladi\u0107 was promoted to lead the Bosnian Serb Army (VRS), the military for the Republika Srpska, a self-proclaimed secessionist republic within the newly independent Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n

On May 2, forces under the command of Mladi\u0107 blockaded Sarajevo, beginning the four-year Siege of Sarajevo, the longest siege of a city in modern warfare history. Mladi\u0107 shut off the city\u2019s water and electricity and all roads leading in and out of Sarajevo. The city was constantly shelled by the VRS and snipers routinely gunned down civilians waiting in bread or water lines.<\/p>\n

Another key part of Mladi\u0107\u2019s strategy was ethnic cleansing. Srebrenica is within the Republika Srpska. At the time, nearly three-quarters of its population was made up of Bosnian Muslims, with the remaining 25% Bosnian Serbs. Mladi\u0107 and secessionist officials believed if the VRS could capture Srebrenica and eliminate its Muslim population, it would undercut the viability of a Bosnian Muslim state.<\/p>\n

The Bosniak villages around Srebrenica were also an early target of Mladi\u0107. Nearly 300 villages near Srebrenica in the first three months of the war alone were destroyed by the VRS.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d be poorer without the Muslims,\u201d Mladi\u0107 told CNN\u2019s Christine Amanpour. \u201cIt\u2019s good to have them around but in smaller concentration.\u201d<\/p>\n

In July 1995, VRS troops laid siege to Srebrenica, which had been declared a safe haven by the United Nations. Dutch troops, part of the international peacekeeping force, were no match for Mladi\u0107\u2019s men.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t be afraid. Don\u2019t be afraid,\u201d Mladi\u0107 told the crowd while his troops handed out candy to the children.<\/p>\n

But on July 11, the VRS and a Serb paramilitary unit fittingly named The Scorpions began 11 days of systematically killing Bosniak Muslim men and boys from Srebrenica and surrounding villages, burying them in mass graves in meadows, fields and forests. By the end of the massacre, 8,372 had been slain. Another 25,000 to 30,000 Bosniaks, primarily women and children, were raped, beaten and tortured and forcibly moved out of Srebrenica.<\/p>\n

Suljagic, a Bosnian Muslim from Srebrenica, also encountered Mladi\u0107 in Srebrenica during the siege. At the time Suljagic, then 20, was working as an interpreter for the UN, a job that saved his life. Mladi\u0107 looked at Suljagic\u2019s identity card, asked him what he was doing and told him he could go, Suljagic wrote in his 2005 memoir \u201cPostcards from the Grave.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI survived because Mladi\u0107 felt like God that day,\u201d Suljagic wrote. \u201cHe had absolute power to decide over life and death. I used to dream about him for months, reliving the encounter. \u2026 I feared I would go mad trying to explain to myself why he spared me, who was just as insignificant to him as my friends must have been whose execution he ordered. I never found an answer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Resilience meets opportunity<\/h4>\n

Mladi\u0107 was found guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in 2017 and sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan would later characterize the Srbrenica massacre as \u201ca terrible crime \u2013 the worst on European soil since the Second World War.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the dead was Bajraktarevi\u0107\u2019s grandfather, Elmer\u2019s dad, as well as two of Elmer\u2019s brothers.<\/p>\n

Two of Emina\u2019s brothers were also killed trying to flee Srebrenica. Elmer and Emina were able to escape from Srebrenica, spending two years on the run before finally finding safety in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

They relocated to the U.S. in 2001 as part of a refugee program, eventually settling in Appleton, which has a Bosnian community made up of largely refugee families like the Bajraktarevi\u0107s who fled the Yugoslav wars.<\/p>\n

\u201cEsmir\u2019s story is ultimately an American story as much as a Bosnian one,\u201d Suljagic said. \u201cA family survives genocide, finds refuge in the United States, raises a child in freedom, and that child grows into an athlete capable of inspiring millions. That is a testament to the resilience of survivors, but also to the opportunities that refuge and safety can provide. There is something profoundly hopeful about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Appleton, the Bajraktarevi\u0107s kept up many of the family traditions from Bosnia: food, language and soccer. One of the family\u2019s first home videos is of a young Esmir dribbling across their front lawn while wearing a replica Bosnia jersey of his hero, Edin Dzeko.<\/p>\n

Before long, Bajraktarevi\u0107 was dribbling through and around opponents all over the Midwest, earning him the nickname \u201cThe Milwaukee Messi,\u201d in homage to Argentine superstar Lionel Messi.<\/p>\n

Bajraktarevi\u0107 was just 17 when he signed with the New England Revolution in Major League Soccer. He also caught the eye of coaches in the U.S. national team pipeline. He made his debut with the U.S. Under-19 squad in 2022 and then played six times for the U.S. U-23s in 2023-24.<\/p>\n

In January 2025, the Revolution sold Bajraktarevi\u0107 to Dutch powerhouse PSV Eindhoven. That same month, he made his debut for the U.S. national team in a match with Slovenia.<\/p>\n

But by the following July, Bajraktarevi\u0107 had a change of heart, or rather, he realized where his heart had been all along. He petitioned FIFA to switch his sports citizenship to Bosnia. On Sept. 7, he made his Bosnia debut in a UEFA Nations League match against Netherlands.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision for me was very easy,\u201d he told reporters at the time. \u201cIt was something I knew I wanted to do since I was little. It was just a process that took a while. I\u2019m very happy I made it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEsmir\u2019s choice demonstrates something important about the Bosnian diaspora,\u201d Suljagic said. \u201cIntegration and belonging in a new country do not erase attachment to the old one. He is a product of both worlds. The fact that he chose Bosnia is a reminder that identity can be additive rather than exclusive. It speaks to the enduring connection many diaspora families maintain with the country their parents were forced to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

The greatest revenge<\/h4>\n

Bajraktarevi\u0107\u2019s first goal for Bosnia came in a November World Cup qualifying match against Romania. He received the ball on the right side of the 18-yard box, dribbled to his left to the top of the box and then blasted a shot over the Romanian defense that curled into the top corner of the net.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is something I dreamed about since I was little,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

So there he was four months later, having led PSV Eindhoven to one Dutch league title and well on its way to another, standing behind the penalty spot in Zenica in another moment he, and a nation, had spent a lifetime dreaming of.<\/p>\n

Standing a few meters behind with the rest of the Bosnia starters was Dzeko, the former Manchester City star, Bajraktarevi\u0107\u2019s childhood hero and now his teammate. Dzeko closed his eyes. So did Bosnia coach Sergei Barbarez.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen I heard this explosion of joy,\u201d Dzeko wrote.<\/p>\n

The goal was both a defining moment for Bajraktarevi\u0107 and Bosnia in the truest sense and an act of defiance by a child of Srebrenica. Mladi\u0107 would never have the last word.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a small country that is so often associated internationally with war, genocide and political crisis, it was a rare moment of collective joy,\u201d Suljagic said. \u201cSport cannot solve our problems, but it can briefly remind us of who we are beyond them. For ninety minutes, Bosnians at home and across the diaspora experienced something that transcended politics, ethnicity and geography.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe penalty kick itself was a moment of extraordinary composure from a young player carrying immense pressure. For many Bosnians, it symbolized confidence, self-belief and a sense that a new generation is beginning to define the country\u2019s story on its own terms.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Bosnia celebrated into the fiery glow of the flare-lit night and into the next morning, Suljagic posted a photo on social media of Bajraktarevi\u0107 moments after his World Cup-clinching penalty kick, his hand over his heart while his teammates celebrated around him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a plan so that this boy could never be born,\u201d Suljagic wrote on the post, \u201cso that my children would never be born, so that none of our children would ever be born. Their laughter is our greatest revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

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