Slovenka Marinković was born in 1951 in Leskovac, in Serbia. In 1972 she moved to Split with her husband, a member of the Yugoslav National Army. Before the outbreak of the war in the 1990s she divorced from her husband and remained living in their apartment with their two daughters. At the beginning of the 1990s she started experiencing unpleasantries due to her ethnicity. It culminated on February 2, 1994 when members of the Croatian Army and the Military Police evicted her - in a particularly brutal way - from the apartment which she held the right of occupancy for. Following the incident she fell on hard times. On top of strained circumstances there was the fact that - because of the worry of her being proscribed due to her ethnicity - more or less no one wanted to take her in as a tenant. She found little in the way of human solidarity. In 2000 she managed to move back into her apartment, that had been completely emptied of its contents. She received a small amount of compensation for the fact that her flat had been robbed. Proceedings are under way for compensation for the rent that she was due to pay at the time when she was evicted from her flat and for the pain and suffering experienced. Today she lives in Split and she is retired.