Project Detail: Sarajevo’s Six Children.

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LuganoPhotoDays 2018



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Author:

Roberto Nistri

 

Project Info

Sarajevo’s Six Children.

Sarajevo, today the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, has always been an important crossroads of Balkan history

and culture.

Sarajevo hosted the 1984 Winter Olympic Games.

Sarajevo, between April 5, 1992 and February 29, 1996 has been under the siege that will be remembered

as the longest of a city in modern history. For four years, Sarajevo lacked electricity and running water,

with its citizens reportedly living in pre-modern standards of life.

The four years of siege in Sarajevo caused damage to almost all of the buildings, 35 000 of which were

completely destroyed. It is estimated that the Serbian Chetnik neo fascist militia artillery and snipers have

killed more than 11 500 people, and left at least another 50 000 injured.

In Sarajevo, 85% of the siege victims were civilians. In Sarajevo, during the siege, 1600 of the dying victims

were children.

In Sarajevo, six children who survived that terrible siege, now adults, remember, twenty years later,

the war that now seems forgotten by everyone.

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