STORIES FROM HORROR | The siege of Sarajevo

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This is a raw and unfiltered look at the darkest chapters of history. In each episode we explore dictatorships, hate crimes and terror regimes that left indelible scars on humanity. Silenced voices, forgotten memories and uncomfortable truths that need to be told. 

Do you remember those images of people running down the street risking their lives or losing them to snipers in Sarajevo?

Today's episode is dedicated to these heroes.

The siege, the settlement, of Sarajevo was undoubtedly the longest in modern history, keeping some 350,000 trapped for almost 4 years.

The siege was part of the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the consequences of the collapse of Yugoslavia, that fragile union of six socialist republics, which included Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia, formed in 1945.

In the 1990s, rising tensions between the different republics saw a nationalist resurgence that ended up tearing the nation apart, with a bloody war that would see some of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II.

Honestly, with the way the world is going, I doubt we have learned anything.

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Patricia López Muñoz
Higher Technician in Sociocultural Dynamisation
Specialist Technician in Immigration
Higher Technician in Social Integration