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Amanda Brook Celars
Amanda Brook Celar was born Amanda Walton in 1944 in Market Harborough, Leicestershire in the U.K. She married in 1966 and with her first husband established a successful chain of supermarkets. In ...ver másAmanda Brook Celar was born Amanda Walton in 1944 in Market Harborough, Leicestershire in the U.K. She married in 1966 and with her first husband established a successful chain of supermarkets. In 1987, she and her husband separated and Amanda moved to Amsterdam and here met her future second husband, Ilija Celar. In January 1988, she and Ilija moved to Osijek, Croatia in his native Yugoslavia. Together they opened a trading agency and worked with local and UK companies up until April 16th, 1991 when, in the early hours of the morning, they were forced to flee across the River Drava, to Baranja in London, in 1991, Amanda was invited to join the Serbian lobby. She wrote many articles for Ian Greer and John Kennedy Associates for the lobbyist's campaign. Her protests were against bias and the poor quality of foreign media reports on events in Baranja. She was invited by General Krstic the Commanding General of the J.N.A (Yugoslavian Army) for that region, to attend meetings with the UN and to film atrocities and damage to civilian houses in Baranja to publicize these events. She also worked to organise aid shipments and donations for Baranja.After the occupation of Baranja by Croatia in 1996, Ilija and Amanda left to live in Valjevo in South-West Serbia. Amanda worked as an English teacher in a local private school from 2001 until her retirement in 2010. She and Ilija live quietly on their little farm, just outside Valjevo. In 2014, Amanda was approached by the counsel for Goran Hadgic and asked to testify at the Hague War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Her testimony was regarding what she witnessed in Croatia, before, during and after the Civil War. She gave her evidence at the Hague in September 2014.ver menos