Explosions going off all around her, drained after fleeing genocidal troops, Mevlida Lazibi looked at the sleeping baby and made the decision of her life in a split second.
Desperate to get the five-week-old infant away from the hell of war, her grandmother thrust the child at Mevlida and begged her to take her.
There was no time to think. Mevlida tucked the baby, wrapped in just a blanket, into her coat and ran for her life, emotions tearing through her mind.
Just days earlier she had delivered her own stillborn baby while fleeing soldiers who slaughtered men and raped women. Mevlida had buried her little girl in an unmarked grave in woodland.
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