Emina Planja

“ My family's financial situation has been very difficult since my husband was taken to Guantanamo. My husband used to provide financial support for my children and me. I live now with my parents; I am unemployed and my family is supporting my children and I. My youngest daughter was born with a heart ailment and needs special care; my youngest son is now two and one half years old and has never seen his father. The elder children know where their father is and miss him a lot; every day they ask when their father will be coming back to them. ”

“ He was raised in an ordinary, religious family and worked as a professor of physics and chemistry in Algeria; he also qualified as an imam. In 1996, my husband started to work for the humanitarian aid organization Human Appeal, and we moved to Sarajevo. He worked as a social worker with war-orphaned children. He loved working with children; he is also a very affectionate and loving father to his own children and spent all his free time taking care of them. On October 21, 2001, upon receiving a call from the police, my husband went to the police station in Sarajevo. ”

“ He was granted Bosnian citizenship on January 2, 1995. Until the beginning of the civil war, in 1992, I lived with my parents in Rogatica where I went to elementary school. Due to the hostilities we had to leave Rogatica. We came to Zenica as displaces persons; I finished elementary school, but was not able to continue my education. Until coming to Bih, Hadj lived in Algeria, with his parents and his brother. Hadj also has three more brothers and one sister who live with their own families in Algeria. ”