Word: sarajevans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Miro and Nives, two battle-hardened Sarajevan refugees, joined me for a screening of Welcome to Sarajevo, we all expected to engage in a fair share of sarcastic rib nudging and eye rolling. How could any film capture what I felt in the summer of 1994, for instance, when I watched antiaircraft rounds pierce a tram like a sardine can, and then rushed to Kosevo Hospital to interview the wounded--including a man who had not yet realized that his wife was dying on a nearby operating table? And how much less could any movie mirror that couple...
Should I be happy that my older son understands, that this 14-year-old boy knows very well what this is all about? It means that he understands he is no longer a Sarajevan, that he no longer knows what forgiveness is, that soon he'll understand precisely what hatred is too. It also means that he's become part of that wretched world out there, a world to which Sarajevo no longer belongs and in which Sarajevo no longer has any faith...
...results are obvious. Until six or seven months ago, every true Sarajevan needed at least an hour to walk from the Holiday Inn to the cathedral. You had to stop and say hello to so many people, to ask after everyone. Now that same distance takes just 15 minutes because no one stops. No one has anything left to ask anyone...
...first stop on a tour of peacekeeping trouble spots. When the Secretary-General declared that he was bringing desperate and besieged Bosnians a "message of hope" that peace would come soon, demonstrators jeered and spat at him. Climbing into an armored car, Boutros-Ghali was pursued by one Sarajevan who pushed his face against a window and screamed, "Murderer! Murderer...