THE WEST'S SERBIANIZATION
by Jean Baudrillard
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At the price of superhuman effort, after three years of massacre, and above all, after the humiliation of the forces of the international community (finally something unbearable), international opinion seems to have recognized, though grudgingly and with strong reservations, that the Serbs are the aggressors. This recognition might also seem to demonstrate that we are being as firm and lucid as possible. In fact, it simply brings us to the war's starting point.

Sarajevo is...
by Aleksandar Hemon

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The taxi driver who drove me from the airport and, when I observed that the leaves were already beginning to fall, replied: “Why, yes, first watermelons, then lessons,” which, on close analysis,

#Sarajevo
@SashaHemon I understood as representing a magic formula to describe the gradual approach of autumn. The moment when, from Jekovac, after the Ramazan cannon fires to indicate sunset, you see the lights on all the minarets of Sarajevo simultaneously ignite.

MELISA VITEŠKIĆ was killed on 16 October 1992. She was with her father Edhem trying to get across the runway when the #Serb Forces shot her in the head.

Melisa was 12 years old.

#SniperAlley #BosnianGenocide Melisa's father described the details of her murder:
"Since the barricades in the city [April 1992], even in Ilidza, she lived with her sister and mother at her aunt’s and uncle’s place in ‘Bratstva i Jedinstva’ street, Pofalici, for security reasons.

#OTD 29 May 1993, instead of asking for "world peace" as she was crowned, Inela Nogić unfolded a banner that read: "Don't let them kill us." When asked what she would do as Miss Besieged Sarajevo, she replied, "I have no plans, I could be dead tomorrow."

Photo©️Jerome Delay Nogić was born and raised in Sarajevo, a true daughter of the city. Inela was by all accounts a good student, but as a 16-year-old when the shells began raining down on Sarajevo everything sort of ground to a halt.

On the 2nd of May in 1992, JNA (Yugoslav People’s Army) from #Serbia supported by local #Serbian militants tried to deal the final blow to the #Bosnian defenders, occupy #Sarajevo and force legal government to surrender.

It was a beautiful sunny day...

Thread⬇️⬇️⬇️ 2 MAY 1992
That morning was calm & peaceful, just the day before people were having May the 1st, Labor Day, celebrations. Nobody was expecting to witness the start of the Siege, that would last almost next four years, 1,425 days

It started in the afternoon of 2 May 1992.

#Siege

NERMIN DIVOVIĆ was killed on 18 November 1994. He was murdered by the #Serbian sniper when he was returning home with his mother Dženana & sister Dženita. His mother was shot in the stomach, bullet went through and hit Nermin in the head.

Nermin was 7 years old.

#NerminDivovic He is lying in the Sniper Alley street, the UN fire­fighters who tried to help him are standing nearby, and in the version of the photograph that circulated most widely, the UN firefighters are shown in action, seemingly trying to block the area around Nermin.

Photo©️Enric Martí

On the 2nd of May, JNA (Yugoslav People’s Army) from #Serbia supported by local #Serbian militants tried to deal the final blow to the #Bosnian defenders, occupy Sarajevo and force legal government to surrender.

This is how some events unfolded.

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#SarajevoUnderSiege 2 MAY 1992
Shelling of #Sarajevo began at 3 a.m., and lasted until 5 a.m. It was the most intense shelling seen until then.
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Photo©️Hidajet Delic