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Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts

Friday, June 18, 2010

The Tunnel



There is an underground path that goes from one part of Sarajevo to the airport, under once Serbian lines as a method of escape and to get resources. This week on for a a few hundred meters, as people hunched over walked in hopes of escaping war. The tunnel is still around today, although you can only walk 25 meters through it with a museum on top filled with photographs of war and a film of home footage of the siege. This home claims to be the exit of the tunnel, however, it is still heavily disputed with the neighbor across the street (first picture) who claims to the point of painting it on his house, that his home is the real portal to the tunnel.
The cost of entrance to this site: 5km plus a taxi to the obscure home, sitting in a typical neighborhood.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Graveyard of the Dead 1992-1995


There is a graveyard on the north side of Sarajevo specifically for those who died in the recent civil war. I don't know the story correctly, so I won't tell it, but it is a graveyard specifically for either the Christian Orthodox of Serbia or the Catholics of Croatia. I'm not sure, but what I do know is the graveyard is quite large with over probably a thousand tombstones. And that was just for those who could make it to a graveyard to bury those they love, there are plenty of tombstones in every patch of grass you see in the city and out. And that is what I do know.