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...blasts, the world was wondering what would become of Bombay. "Is it going to be like Sarajevo?" an American television interviewer asked me. There were predictions that the stock market would nosedive, but it actually gained 3% the very next day. This was history repeating itself; after a bombing in 1993, when the exchange building itself was attacked, traders stood amid the ruins and used the old manual system, sending the Sensex shooting up 10% in two days. Just to show...
...Winterbottom, who co-directed the movie with Mat Whitecross, has fashioned a most adventurous filmography. He has made period tragedies (Jude) and comedies (Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story), but his true métier is the political docudrama set in lands scorched by war: Bosnia for Welcome to Sarajevo, Afghanistan for In This World. The Road to Guantánamo is his most unsparing statement yet of war's brutalizing effect on both the prisoner and his jailer...
Sanjin Tunovic has some very vivid memories from his early life. Of course, most people would if they spent their childhood in war-torn Sarajevo, Bosnia...
When Tunovic reports for football in the fall, he’ll be a long way from Sarajevo: 4,270 miles, to be exact. Just going to college for many immigrant children is quite a feat, but attending Harvard college will bring with it special meaning...
...indicted by the tribunal in 1995 on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in the massacre of 8,000 men and boys at Srebrenica, the worst mass killing in Europe since World War II, and for overseeing the three-year siege of Sarajevo, among other crimes. General Mladic, 63, a former colonel and loyal communist in the Yugoslav People's Army, was Karadzic's military commander, though that does not come close to capturing his role. He was "Milosevic's more-than-willing executioner," says Natasa Kandic, a leading Serbian human-rights investigator. "He understood perfectly...