By the end of November 1995, when people were already starting to walk around in Sarajevo’s streets, due to the recent Cease Fire Agreement, I noticed a marble plaque on a wall, at Marshal Tito’s Avenue, that said: –“Truth was the first casualty on the fratricide war of Bosnia”. It was said that the plaqueContinuar lendo “News media War Correspondents in Bosnia – “If it bleeds, it leads””
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Missão ONU na ex-Jugoslávia FORPRONU/UNPROFOR
No início dos anos 90 do Séc. XX, a ex-Jugoslávia implodiu num conflito fratricida. Uma guerra onde cerca de um quarto de milhão de pessoas morreram ou foram consideradas desaparecidas. Estimava-se que mais de um milhão de pessoas teriam perdido as suas casas, tendo a maioria das infra-estruturas do país ficado destruídas. No total, aContinuar lendo “Missão ONU na ex-Jugoslávia FORPRONU/UNPROFOR”
How is the war like in your country?
Bosnia 1995 – On the 18th of August, it rained copiously the entire day and there was mud everywhere. With such inclement weather, one would expect the warring factions to slow down their activity; but it was exactly the opposite. One of the occurrences that marked the day was a sniper fire over one ofContinuar lendo “How is the war like in your country?”
“Operation Flash” Croatian Independence War
01MAY1995 06:00 – Driving on the highway from Zagreb to Belgrade, suddenly we were right on the middle of a Croatian attack to Sector West of the Krajina. “Operation Flash” had just started and we were on the wrong place, at the wrong time! The Krajina were Serb populated territories inside Croatia. There were SeveralContinuar lendo ““Operation Flash” Croatian Independence War”
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