Transcript · bosnian → English
bosnian → English transcript
I'll just take a peek from above
And when I came to the very line to cross the Chetnik trench
The worst part is at Vidikovac, on Trebević.
I wasn't 100% sure I was in the right place, but my sense of direction was somehow good.
I looked and came to a path, there was a tree, a trunk like this one here.
I looked behind me, and from this direction there was no one, but from the other, a Chetnik was coming.
The tree is narrower than me, if I squat he'll see me, whatever I do he'll see me.
Even if he looks closely behind the tree, he'll see me.
The only thing left for me at that moment was to recite Ayat al-Kursi.
With complete conviction that he wouldn't see me.
And as he was getting closer to me, I was moving around the tree.
He passes by, I follow him with my gaze.
When he passed, I ran across and went down towards our line
I made my way through the forest for three hours, from dusk until late at night,
literally from 5 to 8 in the evening, I broke through to our line.
When I arrived and realized, when they stopped me—to make a long story short,
when I became aware that I had survived, I performed one prostration,
in gratitude to God, a prostration from which I feel I've never risen.
I've never been able to recapture the feeling of that prostration of gratitude to God.
They told us how the Turkish people were organizing,
how women took off their earrings and rings, how they gave their last money in Turkey to help the Bosniaks.
And just so you know, every earring taken off by your mothers in Turkey,
saved a Bosniak woman here from being raped.
Thanks for watching.
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Original transcript (bosnian)
Samo tviljir ću gdje se dozgo I kada sam došao na samu liniju da prođem preko Četnički rova, Najgore to je na Vidikovcu, na Trebeviću. Nisam ja bio baš siguran 100% da sam na pravom mjestu, ali orijentacija je bila nekako dobra. Pogledao sam i došao sam do jednog puta, ima drvo, ovako stablo kao i ovo ovdje.
Pogledao sam iza i od ovdje go nema niko, od ovdje ide Četnik. Drvo je tajnije od mene, ako ćučnem vidjet će me, što bilo da uradim vidjet će me. Čak i ako se dobro zagleda iza drveta vidjet će me. Jedino što mi je ostalo u tom trenutku je učim deveti ajacure jasi. Sa potpunim uvjerenjem da me neće vidjeti.
I kako je on prilazio blizu mene, ja sam se okreto oko drveta. On prolazi, ja ga ispratim pogledom mojeg. Kada je on prošao, ja sam pretrčao, spustio se dolje prema našoj liniji, probio sam se kroz šumu tri sata, noć je bila od Akšama do Jacije, bukvalno od 5 do 8 sati naveče sam se probio do naše linije.
Kada sam došao i kada sam shvatio, kada su me zaustavili da sad ne dužimo tu priču, kada sam postao svjesan da sam preživio, učinio sam jednu sečdu, tada za hvalnost i Bogu, koju ni dan danas nisam slaz te sečde i vratio. Nikad nisam mogao vratiti osjećaj te sečde za hvalnost i Bogu. Oni su nam ispričali kako se turski narod organizira,
kako žene skidaju minđuše, prstenje, kako daju zadnje novce u Turskoj da bi pomogli Bošnjacima. Evo, i da znate, svaka skinuta minđuša vaših majki u Turskoj, ovdje je spasila obraz jednoj Bošnjakini osilovanje. Hvala za gledanje.
