Boris Milicevic, Deputy Minister for Human and Minority Rights in the Government of the Republic of Serbia, recently published on his Twitter profile a text whose content got attention and he presented his story of his hard and difficult childhood where he grew up in an orphan family. He speaks about the kid of Roma nationality, Aco, whom he lived with together, and with his help he succeeded to survive the hardest period in his life as he said. Milicevic, on twitter wrote that it was hard to live everyday getting beat up for even the smallest mishap from his then guardians in a village not far away from Belgrade. He shared those struggles together with his friend, Aco the Roma boy who was like a brother to him.
-“I was lucky enough, in all of this misfortune while living with this guardian family near Belgrade to live together with another orphan, Aco, he was 1 year older than me. We were like brothers. I don’t know where Aco is today, but I am forever grateful for protecting me from everyone, for instilling the love in me towards the Roma as well as the other people, and for showing me that we’re all equal, the same.
