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The white gravestones stretch from the edge of Sarajevo’s Old Town to the fortress perched on the summit of the hill. The first few that I pass have the year 1991 engraved upon them, the next ’92, then ’93, ’94 and on and on as I climb higher up the hill. I realise quickly that most of these graves are …
Beautiful yet brutal. That’s Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is a country where Bosnian Muslims live next to Orthodox Serbs, and orthodox Serbs live next to Catholic Croatians. Everyone gets on smashingly, except for when they don’t get on smashingly. Every now and then everything kicks off, usually along ethnic or religious lines. Or both. Bosnia takes diversity to an unprecedented level. …
“Be careful”, said Miran. “Don’t step off the path”. The crazy Bosnian had led us right into the middle of a minefield. “If you go to the right there’s a fifty percent chance of death, and if you do down there to the left, there’s a ninety percent chance of death”, he explained casually as he walked us across the …
In 1984 the Winter Olympics were hosted by the city of Sarajevo. Then part of Yugoslavia, the games brought together athletes and spectators from all over the world in a communist state for the first time in history. But only a few years later war would shake the Balkans apart, and today the Olympic stadiums and venues are crumbling apart too. In Sarajevo …
In the 1990’s Yugoslavia met its death in the vicious wars that split the country apart. Now, across the new nations of the Balkans, you can see the abandoned remnants of this previous era. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, I found a secret Yugoslav Airbase, built beneath a mountain on the orders of Joseph Tito himself and hidden away for years. It was …
