Zaim Pasic came to London from Sarajevo in August 1993 after sustaining injuries to his eyes, head and arms when a grenade exploded at his place of work. He has worked to support the Bosnian community in London over the past eight years.
Reason why I'm here is my trouble in the war, in the Sarajevo I was wounded and… medical team from London is take me from the hospital. They give me lot of help and… for now I am here, in London.
Q: How were you wounded in Sarajevo?
I was in a office, I was work in… something like… civil officer in army, Bosnian army… and my colleague is… work something with the tromblon, it's a grenade, type of grenade, and it was exploded. He's die, I am terribly wounded, I lost my left eye damaged right eye, both arms and the head and the--.
In the hospital they think that I am dead, it was--, they put in me in some place, leave me maybe for later or because it was lot of people who is wounded in that--, that day. In the Sarajevo everydays around ten, 15, sometimes 100 people is wounded or die or… it was everyday around, shooting by grenade and afterwards I'm feeling--,
I was feeling something very very cold and I tried to scream round, somebody ask me 'why you screaming?', I said 'what's happening with me, is very very cold?' you know, he said 'but must be because they think you are dead you know and they put you in some corner and--', but temperature was minus eighteen degrees Celsius, you know and--, but I'm still alive, here.
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