Liverpool star Dejan Lovren urges compassion for refugees

Defender tells LFC TV how his family were forced to leave their home and flee war-torn Bosnia

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Liverpool defender Dejan Lovren tells LFC TV about his life as a refugee 
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Liverpool defender Dejan Lovren has spoken out about his experience of a refugee after the collapse of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and called for compassion for people forced to flee their homes.

He also painted a stark picture of how quickly his "comfortable" life in the Bosnian town of Kraljeva Sutjeska, north of Sarajevo, disintegrated as rival groups turned on each other.

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