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Article: The east is red. (Bosnia)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- April 1, 1995
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An array of appalling images has been produced during the dismemberment of Yugoslavia, most showing carnage and destruction on an apocalyptic scale. In comparison, this still image looks quiet and mild - but it is one of the most frightening pictures that has resulted from the conflict. Taken from a Serbian TV broadcast, it shows captured Bosnian Muslim soldiers in the Bosnian town of Bihac. What can't be seen here is the sound that goes with this picture, which was broadcast on American TV: the soldiers are being made to chant a funeral dirge for Bosnia's enlightened multiethnicity. "Bosnia is for the Serbs," they drone, in an uncanny mimicry of Orwellian dehumanization, ...
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Article: Sarajevo: Peace Fulcrum; Future of Bosnia, and ...
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October 9, 1995 ;
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... ... future of Sarajevo? Ever since Bosnia's war erupted, Sarajevo has ... collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. But with talk of peace in Bosnia, Sarajevo has taken on a new role -- that of the Jerusalem of Europe -- the prize of the Bosnian ...
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