Word: sarajevos
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Actually, Sarajevo no longer believes anyone. Sarajevo no longer reacts to any decisions, whether they be truly or only quasi-historical. Nor does Sarajevo react to any promises, even if the intentions behind them are sincere and serious -- despite the fact that such intentions haven't been displayed for quite some time. Sarajevo has seen everything there is to see till now, and it has felt the worst there is to feel upon its very skin...
...citizens of Sarajevo, offending everyone as usual, think the so-called historical event in Brussels is no more and no less than a great lie. That is why we are neither happy nor optimistic but completely desperate and full of sorrow. It is not because no one wants to help us. We don't even pay attention to the big lie that this is a case of crimes against humanity. On the contrary, it is clear to Sarajevans that this is a crime that humanity itself has afflicted upon simple, unassuming people...
Finally, and this is the most important aspect, what do we get out of this when the operation has been completed? We get a blockade of Sarajevo moved 12 miles from the city, instead of 3 miles away as we have now. What this really means is that all the occupied territory will remain in the hands of those who occupied it by force. But now the newly marked out borders will be watched over carefully and responsibly by the blue helmets. Slowly but surely, the demarcation lines will dissolve into a border line between different "states." This will cement...
...skin. It is only a way of saving his army and weapons, only another ploy to gain time until the world's attention span, now fixed on the horror of the marketplace, fades, and the story begins all over again. Soon the idea of a division of Bosnia and Sarajevo as the only solution will come back in through the front door, right to the table around which various war criminals will be seated...
What do you think -- did he get it? And what do you think it will be possible to talk about with that child one day, and with thousands of other Sarajevo kids whose hair turned gray before they even went to school, if they ever did get to school? It's all the same to me after talking to an 80-year- old grandmother who, amid the worst bombardment of Sarajevo, walked through the middle of the main street and at the frantic warnings to hide because she could get killed, quietly but clearly answered, "That...