Bosnia Herzegovina – Right after the Cease Fire became in force (11OCT95), the UNMO team of UNPROFOR HQ (Sarajevo) got tasked to verify and monitor its implementation on the roads Sarajevo – Pale – Gorazde.
Gorazde was a besieged city; there was no one to collect the garbage and nowhere to deposit it. Only the rapid and massive flow of River Drina could take the filth away. Looking at that river, with its significant amount of water, rapidly flowing from Northeast to Southwest across the City, I couldn’t help remembering the poet’s words “the need sharpens the ingenuity”. Ingenuity had no nations or ethnicity; it was a survival characteristic of the Human kind; and that river was the absolute prove of it.
All over the Drina there was a large amount of rotating floating devises, attached to the River’s banks. They were rafts with mills connected to electricity generators, and the cabling attaching them to the bridges, or to the banks, also carried the electricity produced by each rotating generator. The amount of electricity produced was reduced, but it was enough to supersede the absolute basic energy needs of the town. The Serbs had cut the electricity access to the City, but Gorazde was not completely on the dark.
The Cease Fire Agreement only imposed the return of electricity, water and gas to Sarajevo. Gorazde would have to wait some more time for its turn. Meanwhile, they kept the wartime systems up and running.
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