‘Like winning the lottery’: Canadian rugby refugee to play in adopted hometown
BURNABY, B.C. — Admir Cejvanovic doesn’t remember much about the refugee camp nestled on the border of Croatia and his native Bosnia.
Just a toddler at the time, he lived there with his mother under the protection of the United Nations for about six months as the Balkan region descended into a series of wars in the early 1990s.
“I have a couple of glimpses of what it was like,” said Cejvanovic. “It wasn’t too difficult for the kids.
“A lot of us were just ignorant to what was going on.”