They call them the roses of Sarajevo: scars ripping through the concrete and painted red, marking where an artillery ...
In 1993, during the siege of Sarajevo, film fans started a movie club, laying the foundations for the Sarajevo Film Festival. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief It was February 1993 in Sarajevo ...
Sarajevo. Winter 1993. The Bosnian capital is under siege by Serbian nationalist forces. Artillery pieces entrenched in the surrounding hills lob shells and mortars at hospitals, markets, and schools.
Who endured the horrors of Sarajevo’s four-year siege? This video explores the brutal conditions civilians faced, from ...
For my week in Sarajevo, I booked an Airbnb across from the central market (that which was shelled during the civil war) in what feels like the “Austrian” part of the city. Just down the main ...
In the final instalment of BIRN’s war photography series, Debbi Morello recalls her year in besieged Sarajevo, where snipers were an ever-present threat and casualties were buried in the stadium where ...
The siege of Sarajevo began 20 years ago this week (6 April 1992). Lasting nearly four years, it became one of the most dramatic and emblematic events of the violent breakup of the former Yugoslavia ...
‘Weekend snipers’ allegedly paid £70,000 to shoot at innocent and defenseless citizens during the Siege of Sarajevo (Picture: ELVIS BARUKCIC/AFP via Getty Images) Prosecutors have launched an ...
People in Sarajevo marked the anniversary of the beginning of the four-year wartime siege of the Bosnian capital by placing 11,451 pairs of shoes on the streets – a pair for each person who died. This ...
Mykyta Vorobiov is a student at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine. He is currently in Zagreb, Croatia, He recently spent a few days in the city of Sarajevo, in neighboring Bosnia and ...
The 'Path of Remembrance' extends for over a kilometer, adorned with more than 11,500 pairs of shoes, each representing a victim of the siege of Sarajevo. Displayed neatly in rows of three pairs each, ...
‘Sniper tourists’ from Britain spent tens of thousands of pounds to travel to Sarajevo to shoot at civilians during the Bosnian-Serb army’s siege in the 1990s, it has been alleged. More than 30 years ...