Word: sarajevos
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...artillery shells explode and sniper fire rains down on a ruined city, editors and reporters of a small newspaper called Oslobodzenje, or "Liberation," are risking their lives to produce a daily newspaper out of an atomic bomb shelter in war-torn Sarajevo...
Last June, amid heavy fighting in Sarajevo, Serbian forces set fire to the newspaper's building, leveling all nine stories...
Fein criticized remarks made by government officials concerning Sarajevo after the outbreak of conflict. He said former President Bush's refusal to take action indicates the government's reluctance to intervene in a war unless victory is guaranteed...
...What is happening now in Sarajevo is called abandonment," he said. "The fact that another European people is being abandoned is absolutely appalling...
...with Sandra Miocic and Mirna Safcak, two women of Croatian descent who first proposed the exhibit, culled the photos from more than 10,000 pictures. Their goal: to find graphically strong, informative and emotionally evocative images that would illustrate distinct agonies of the war -- ethnic cleansing, the siege of Sarajevo, the medical emergency, life in detention camps and refugee centers, and the rape of women. The process was exhausting and harrowing. "After two hours," says Schindler, "you were so emotionally drained that you wanted to cry. An afternoon of looking at refugee pictures left Sandra so depressed that she hallucinated...