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8 unusual facts about Bosnian War


10 Minutes

10 Minutes is a 2002 short film contrasting ten minutes in the life of a Japanese tourist in Rome with the bloody drama of a Bosnian family taking place at the same time less than an hour away in the besieged city of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

Newscasts report on Bosnian War, Somali Civil War, South Lebanon conflict, Kurdish–Turkish conflict, and molestation allegations against Michael Jackson.

Jasmin Salihović

In 1992, at the age of 12 he and his family took refuge in Macedonia from the ensuing Bosnian War.

Martin Garrod

In retirement he became Deputy Director of the campaign for a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty and a member of the European Union Monitor Mission to Bosnia during the Bosnian War.

Peri Marošević

Marošević was born in Bosnia in the Yugoslavia prior to the Bosnian War, and initially moved to Frankfurt, Germany with his parents as a young child to escape the conflict, before eventually settling in Rockford, Illinois.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vrhbosna

The Bosnian War, which resulted in the Siege of Sarajevo on the archdiocese's home, gravely impacted the archdiocese.

Sarah MacKenzie

Mac received her Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Minnesota and her Juris Doctor degree from Duke University, and was subsequently stationed in Bosnia during the war there.

Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 347

The hijacker was Haris Keč, a Bosnian living in Norway, who made demands that Norwegian authorities help to stop the humanitarian suffering in his home country caused by the Bosnian War.


Adrian Monck

His work on the Dunblane massacre and in Bosnia received awards from Britain's Royal Television Society, and on aid to Rwanda won the special report gold medal, and overall festival prize at the 1995 New York Festivals.

Agudath Israel Etz Ahayem

A chaplain in the United States Navy Reserve, he had been stationed with the U.S. Navy in the Adriatic Sea in 1995, during the Bosnian War.

Battle of Vrbanja bridge

The Battle of Vrbanja bridge was an armed confrontation which occurred on 27 May 1995 between United Nations (UN) peacekeepers from the French Army and elements of the Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS), after the VRS took over French-manned United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) observation posts on both ends of the Vrbanja bridge crossing of the Miljacka river in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War.

Buck Danny

As between 1989 and 1994, by 1996 the world had changed again and so Buck Danny's next album L'escadrille fantôme / Ghost Squadron plays against the backdrop of the Bosnian War, in particular the siege of Sarajevo.

Building of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

During the Bosnian War, the building was used by the Supreme Command of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina as its military headquarters.

Elizabeth Neuffer

During that time, she covered both the war in Bosnia and its subsequent peace, including the 1994 Sarajevo marketplace massacre, the fall of the UN “safe haven” Srebrenica, the arrival of American troops, and elections in postwar Bosnia.

Jon Western

Jon Western was a Balkans and East European specialist in the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research in 1992, when hostilities broke out in the Bosnian War.

Karen Koning AbuZayd

She has been working as chief of mission for UNHCR in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.

Lelija

The Lelija mountains were not part of the frontline during the 1992-'95 conflict and therefore have virtually no contamination with land mines and unexploded ordnance.

Mark Almond

His research interests lie in 19th century and 20th century Central-Eastern Europe; Almond has written a biography of Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu, a study of Albanian migration, and a study of the Bosnian War in its historical context.

Mark Urban

In his years on Newsnight, he has reported on many of the most compelling foreign news stories in the past two decades: the Gulf War; the attempted coup d'état of 1991 in Moscow; 1993 events in Moscow; Bosnian War; Middle East peace process; the War in Kosovo; and the recent US military campaigns in War in Afghanistan and War in Iraq.

Mart Bax

He claimed in his scientific publications there had been an estimated 140 killings, 60 people missing and 600 refugees from the pilgrimage village Medjugorje, in Bosnia during the Bosnian War (1992-1995).

Memorijal Hakija Turajlić

Memorijal Hakija Turajlić is a boxing tournament named in honour of Hakija Turajlić, a former Bosnian politician, economist and businessman who was assassinated in 1993 during the Bosnian War.

National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The gallery was open and held exhibitions during the whole period of the siege of Sarajevo and the Bosnian war in 1992-1995.

Neda Ukraden

When the war in Bosnia started, Neda left Sarajevo, Bosnia and moved to Belgrade, Serbia, where she resides today with her mother, daughter, son and grandchildren.

Sarajevo Tango

The book is dedicated to innocent victims of Sarajevo siege and Bosnian war, moreover, copies of this work have been sent to various politicians, UN and government officials, artists, journalists and celebrities in the world, some of whom being portrayed in it as active participants like UN officials, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Yasushi Akashi, general Lewis MacKenzie, or British diplomat lord David Owen, often under slightly modified name though.

Serbia–Venezuela relations

In 1993, during the Bosnian War, Venezuela was a member of the United Nations Security Council, and argued strongly for, and voted to impose sanctions on Serbia and Montenegro over their support for Bosnian Serbs in battles with Bosnian Croats around Srebrenica.

Serbian cross

A monument in Šamac, Republika Srpska, Bosnia-Herzegovina for the Serbs who fought and died in the Bosnian war, has the Serbian eagle in the center, the years which the war occurred (1992-1995) and the Serbian slogan: "Samo Sloga Srbina Spasava" on the left and right sides.

Sexual orientation and the military of the Netherlands

On March 18, 2010, after U.S. President Obama announced that he wanted to put an end to the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, former U.S. general and high ranking NATO official John Sheehan blamed homosexuals serving in the Dutch military for the fall of Srebrenica to Serb militias in the Bosnian War fifteen years earlier, stating that homosexuals had weakened the Dutch UN battalion charged with protecting the enclave.

Shot Through the Heart

The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends and expert sharpshooters Vlado Selimović (Linus Roache) and Slavko Stanic (Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides of the Bosnian War in Sarajevo.

Shot Through the Heart is a 1998 TV film directed by David Attwood, shown on the BBC and HBO in 1998, which covers the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.

Thom Karremans

Colonel (ret.) Thomas Jakob Peter (Thom / Ton) Karremans (born December 29, 1948 in Apeldoorn) was the commander of Dutchbat troops in Srebrenica at the time of the Srebrenica massacre during Bosnian War.

Trebević

In March 2008, a Bosnian Serb organization Savez logoraša Republike Srpske (Association of Bosnian Serb War Prisoners), led by Branislav Dukić, announced its intention to erect a giant 26-meter (85 foot) high Orthodox Christian cross at the part of the mountain on Republika Srpska territory in order to commemorate the Serb victims in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.

United Nations Security Council

In the Srebrenica massacre, Serbian troops committed genocide against Bosniaks, although Srebrenica had been declared a UN “safe area” and was even “protected” by 400 armed Dutch peacekeepers.

United World College in Mostar

Mostar is widely known by the famous Old Bridge (Stari Most), originally built in 1566, destroyed by HVO forces during the Bosnian War in 1993 and rebuilt in 2004.

Željko Komšić

During the Bosnian war, he served in the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and received the Golden Lily — the highest military decoration awarded by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian government.

Željko Lelek

Željko Lelek (born 9 February 1962, Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina) was the first individual indicted for the mass rape crimes that were a feature of the expulsion of the Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) population of the town of Višegrad, as part of the strategic campaign of ethnic cleansing carried out in the Drina Valley in the early days of the Bosnian War.

Zlata Filipović

From 1991 to 1993, she wrote in her diary, Mimmy, about the horrors of the siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.


see also

Butcher of the Balkans

Radovan Karadžić (born 1945), served as Bosnian Serb president during Bosnian War

Ratko Mladić (born 1942), a Bosnian Serb general during the Bosnian War

Defence Council

Croatian Defence Council, the main military formation of the Croats during the Bosnian War charged with achieving military objectives

Living Marxism

In the first issue where the journal was renamed LM, editor Mick Hume published an article by German journalist Thomas Deichmann which claimed that Independent Television News (ITN) had misrepresented the Bosnian war in its coverage in 1992.

Mujahideen

Some individual members of the Bosnian Mujahideen, gained particular prominence within Bosnia as well as international attention from various foreign governments, such as Abdelkader Mokhtari, Fateh Kamel, and Karim Said Atmani, all of whom were North African volunteers with well established links to Islamic Fundamentalist groups before and after the Bosnian War.

Operation Winter

Operation Winter '94, battle of the Bosnian War and the Croatian War of Independence

Perišić

Risto Perišić, commander of police in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War

Western Bosnia

Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia, a self-proclaimed autonomous entity that existed during the Bosnian War