The Bright Lights of Sarajevo
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Anne H
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The Bright Lights of Sarajevo
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Context poem: country and inhabitants
Capital city of Bosnia-Herzegovina (a state of Yugoslavia)
500.000 inhabitants: Bosniaks 50% (Bosnian Muslims), Serbs and Kroats 50%
Official language: Serbo-Croatian
Ethnic groups had their own dialects
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The Bosnian War
1992-1995
Bosnia-Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia
Bosnian Serbs and Serbs unhappy with how country was broken up
War for control
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The siege of Sarajevo 1992-1996
To capture the city of Sarajevo, Serb soldiers put their tanks and artillerie in the surrounding hills. They cut off the water and electricity, took control of the roads to block supplies of food, medicines and fuel and started to bomb it. Sarajevo was under siege.
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The siege of Sarajevo 1992-1996
Food and fuel (for heating and cooking) was scarce. There were few sources of running water, and no mains electricity, only generators. The people of Sarajevo relied on humanitarian aid such as food and medicine distributed by the Red Cross or air-dropped by United Nations planes. A little fuel was allowed or smuggled in.
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A city under siege
Within the city there were some soldiers of the Bosnian army, as well Serb soldiers who had been inside at the start of the siege. They fought each other for control of different areas, and each side had snipers in the taller buildings along two major roads. These snipers fired at civilians as well as at enemy soldiers.
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A city under siege
On average, Sarajevo suffered hits from 330 bombs and rockets every day. On the worst single day 3,777 shells hit the city. Much of the shelling was random. Civilian neighbourhoods as well as military targets were hit. Hospitals, shops, a market, houses and apartments, a football match - nowhere was safe.
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The death toll
The siege lasted almost four years, from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996.
Approximately 10,000 people were killed or otherwise died from cold or starvation during the siege. Some 56,000 people were wounded.
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