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PRIJEDOR
nikad se necu vratit' u svoj rodni grad
tamo me ne ceka niko
i vec odavno su izblijedjela sva lica
i vec odavno imena im ne znam
samo ponekad zimi
dok vjetrovi oplakuju dane
sjetim se tebe
tebe moja bivsa draga
i neke njeznosti davne
i nesto mi sapne u srcu i znam
da sam na svijetu sam
Goran Bregovic
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i'll never return to my hometown
there is nobody waiting for me
and all the faces faded away a long time ago
and it has been a long time since i have known their names
but sometimes in the winter
while the winds are crying over the days
i remember you
you my past love
and some past tenderness
and something whispers in my heart and i know
that in this world i am all alone
Goran Bregovic
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The bloodiest European conflict since World War II began in 1992,when the Yugoslav republic of
Serbia-led by fiercely nationalist president Slobodan Milosevic and abetted by nationalist Bosnian
Serbs-began a brutal campaign to annex parts of republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina(called Bosnia
for short).Ethnically divided Yugoslavia had already come apart at the seams:The republics of
Slovenia and Croatia had established their indepedence(Croatia after a devastating war with Serbia);
the republic of Macedonia had announced its secession.In April,after Bosnia and Herzegovina's
indepedence was formally recognized by the international community,the Serb-dominated Yugoslav
army and Bosnian Serb militias moved to grab as much of the republic's territory as possible for
"Greater Serbia."
Bosnia was a patchwork quilt of ethnic and religious groups-44 percent Muslim,31 percent Serb,
17 percent Croat.Its spiritual and political center was elegant,richly historic Sarajevo.For 500
years,teh city's diverse population had lived in remarkable harmony-interrupted by outbreaks
of nationalist fury like the one that sparked World War I, when Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip
killed Austria-Hungary archduke Franz Ferdinand,once again for the idea of the "Greater Serbia."
(In 1984,a happier time,Sarajevans hosted the Winter Olympics.)Now the capital withered under a
merciless siege;its people crouched in basements and cold apartments,plagued by constant Serbian
shelling and sniping,and by shortages of food,medicine and fuel.
 Sarajevo residents survey the grisly aftermath of a mortar attack on a bread line.
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 A cemetery in Sarajevo by Antoine Gyori,1993
Skittish quality of life in a city encircled by enemy troops and under constant bombardment and sniper fire.
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Other Bosnian communities were subjected to Serbian "ethnic cleansing."Resurrecting a feud
dating to the fourteenth century, when Muslim Turks conquered Sebia,Milosevic's troops emptied
entire Muslim and Croat cities,towns and villages.Sometime the Serb soldiers massacred residents
outright(like in town of Srebrenica,where Serbs led by general Ratko Mladic, killed 7000 civilians in
just a few days);sometimes they consigned civilians to a routine of rape,torture,starvation and
slow but certain death in concentration camps.Residents of Prijedor have seen the worst of those
camps:Omarska,Keraterm,Trnopolje,Manjaca and many of them were sent to other concentration
camps all over Bosnia.Tens of thousands died.Ones who survived were fired from their jobs,their
homes were brutally taken from them and they could have been killed on the street just because
some Serb did not like how they looked,spoke or breathed.Finally,they were forced to leave their
city,and today,in the city of Prijedor,where ten Years ago lived more than 50 000 Muslims and
Croats, only few thousand remains.
 Auschwitz-Birkenau,Poland,1942
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 Omarska,Bosnia and Herzegovina,1992.
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DID YOU,DID YOU SEE THE FRIGHTENED ONES?
DID YOU,DID YOU HEAR THE FALLING BOMBS?
DID YOU EVER WONDER
WHY WE HAD TO RUN FOR SHELTER,
WHEN THE PROMISE OF A BRAVE NEW WORLD
UNFURLED BENEATH A CLEAR BLUE SKY?
DID YOU,DID YOU SEE THE FRIGHTENED ONES?
DID YOU, DID YOU HEAR THE FALLING BOMBS?
THE FLAMES ARE ALL LONG GONE
BUT THE PAIN LINGERS ON
GOODBYE,BLUE SKY
GOODBYE,BLUE SKY
GOODBYE
GOODBYE
Roger Waters
This page is dedicated to all of the innocent people who have died during the horrible genocide in Prijedor.
May God rest their souls.
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