On this day, we lost not just a legend, but a good man. ▪️
On his resignation from the Yugoslav national team at the beginning of the aggression against BiH: “My country doesn't deserve to play in the European Championship. On the scale of human suffering, I cannot reconcile… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Born in #Sarajevo in 1941, he started playing for the first team in the 1959/1960 season. He played for a total of 11 years collecting 250 appearances and 75 goals.
In 1970 he went to France, where he played for Strasbourg, Sedan and Valenciennes.
He ended his playing career in 1978, after which he became a very successful coach. He successfully led #Zeljeznicar from 1978 to 1986. He was also the manager of the Yugoslav national team, Partizan, Panathinaikos, #Sturm, JEF United, and his last coaching engagement was #Japan.
Osim was also became a cult figure, and widely admired in Japan. Such was the case that a book of his collected quotes was published – “Words of Osim” – in 2005 and sold in excess of 400,000 copies, hitting the bestseller charts for a number of weeks. #RIPOsim
The tall blonde #Osim was a creative player with an instinctive ability to read the game and deliver the cutting pass, he also had a natural talent to dribble and beat a player on either side. Rest in peace legend 🇧🇦
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Meet Srđan Golubović aka DJ MAX. #DJMAX is a music DJ. He plays music all over Serbia and the Montenegrin coast. Here’s a photo of DJ MAX kicking a defenseless Tifa Šabanović before murdering her along with other civilians in #Bijeljina.
20,000 rabid #Partizan fans are chanting racist slogans at Real Madrid’s Bosnian player @DzMusa at the moment in Belgrade. Numerous banners hung as well, reminiscent of #Serbia’s vile fascism and genocide.
@FIBA will likely do nothing. Racism and debauchery is rewarded.
On the 2nd of May, JNA (Yugoslav People’s Army) from #Serbia supported by local Serb militants tried to deal the final blow to the #Bosnian defenders, occupy Sarajevo and the force legal government to surrender. Things played out a little differently than they thought…
Local Sarajevo defenders, mostly locals and kids wearing tennis shoes and sneakers, successfully repel attacks outside of the Presidency building. In the adjacent area, infiltrated JNA elite forces from #Serbia are defeated and taken as hostages in a nearby skyscraper.
Attempts by special units of the then Yugoslav Serbian army to occupy the BiH Presidency building culminated in Skenderija, where they were stopped by the MUP Special Unit and the Territorial Defense of BiH, made up of Sarajevo citizens. 🇧🇦
On this day, 1992, the Siege of #Sarajevo began. It was the longest siege of a capital city in the modern era. Sniper attacks and mortar fire was a constant and daily threat to civilians. Over 50,000 people were injured, 11,541 killed, including 1,601 children. #RememberSarajevo
Pictorial map of the siege of #Sarajevo. Shows the siege forces which encircled the city and surrounding hills with weapons that included artillery, mortars, tanks, heavy machine-guns, rocket launchers, aircraft bombs, etc.
On May 31st, all non-Serbs in #Prijedor were ordered to mark their houses with white flags and to wear a white armbands in public.
Over 3,000 killed and the internment of 30,000 people in concentration camps and mass expulsions of over 50,000 people. #NeverForget 🏳️⚪️
The ICTY concluded that the takeover of Prijedor by the Serb politicians was an illegal coup d'état, which was planned and coordinated a long time in advance with the ultimate aim of creating a pure Serb municipality.
The announcements broadcast on the radio, from 31 May 1992 onward, obliged non-Serbs to hang white bed sheets outside their homes and wear white armbands as a demonstration of their loyalty to the Serb authorities.
Mehmedova crkva (Mehmed’s church) is the name of a small church in the woods of Kozara in Kozarac, a small town in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Interestingly, it is named after a Muslim man, but the story is much deeper.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Austro-Hungarian contractor Karl Schmutzer, traveling to Banja Luka, stopped by in these ends and upon seeing the forests of Kozara decided to create a sawmill here, which today is known as “Stara Pilana” (old sawmill).
His daughter, Maria, fell in love with a handsome young sevdah musician named Mehmed Kulasic. Their love was forbidden but Maria gave birth to a child. The child was abandoned and found dead. Maria was exiled back to Austria, while Mehmed was left weeping.