Cimmerianbloke
Elite member
I chose the topic title in order to be provocative. Some of you might have been too young to remember what it was like to see the images of the conflict getting more and more accurate (photojournalism and permanent cover really boomed during the 1st Gulf war, and the proximity of Sarajevo made it easily accessible to a lot of foreign journalists, thus further enhancing the journalism cover to unprecedented heigths).
An interesting photo book will be published later this year, with the peculiarity to have been selected by journalists who covered the conflict. You can have a look at some pictures here:
http://lightbox.time.com/2012/04/05/bosnia/#1
and here:
http://www.lemonde.fr/international...a-guerre-n-est-pas-terminee_1679338_3210.html
I'd like you to share how you lived the daily coverage and the memories linked to that period. In my case, I remember how Europe was trying to save the face, and above all, all the mediatic coverage about François Miterrand (then French president) visiting Sarajevo in a strategic self-promotion stunt.
I have a very deep interest for that conflict, because it showed how Europe, regardless of the speeches and bureaucracy shrouding Brussels, has been powerless and unable to act as one on a genocide perpetrated a stone's throw away. I was also very shocked to learn that one of the Serbian warlord, Arkan, has been jailed in several European countries throughout the 70es and 80es and always managed to set himself free. Above all, I think of that conflict as a warning that multiculturalism has limits and that those limits are dangerously close to start some major upheaval within the EU.
An interesting photo book will be published later this year, with the peculiarity to have been selected by journalists who covered the conflict. You can have a look at some pictures here:
http://lightbox.time.com/2012/04/05/bosnia/#1
and here:
http://www.lemonde.fr/international...a-guerre-n-est-pas-terminee_1679338_3210.html
I'd like you to share how you lived the daily coverage and the memories linked to that period. In my case, I remember how Europe was trying to save the face, and above all, all the mediatic coverage about François Miterrand (then French president) visiting Sarajevo in a strategic self-promotion stunt.
I have a very deep interest for that conflict, because it showed how Europe, regardless of the speeches and bureaucracy shrouding Brussels, has been powerless and unable to act as one on a genocide perpetrated a stone's throw away. I was also very shocked to learn that one of the Serbian warlord, Arkan, has been jailed in several European countries throughout the 70es and 80es and always managed to set himself free. Above all, I think of that conflict as a warning that multiculturalism has limits and that those limits are dangerously close to start some major upheaval within the EU.