Alicia Kearns pays tribute to a constituent's husband who was shot during the Bosnian war
A Leicestershire MP has paid tribute to a constituent's late husband during a Commons debate to mark the 27th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.
The Bosnian war, from 1992 to 1995, came after the break-up of Yugoslavia unleashed nationalist violence and territorial ambitions that set Bosnian Serbs against the country's two other main ethnic factions - Croats and Bosnians.Image source,Ms Kearns, MP for Rutland and Melton, who chairs the all-party parliamentary group on Bosnia, told MPs how Amir was shot by a Serb soldier.
Ms Kearns said the transfusions that saved Amir's life at that time, ultimately killed him, making him another victim of the Bosnian war.
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