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 by Mina17
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Backpacking has a specific meaning in Sarajevo: During the almost 4 years siege 1992 - 1995 citizens got large parts of their provisions carried into town in backpacks. After the 800 m long tunnel under the airport from Dobrinja on the city side to Butmir, was opened in 1993, through the up to 1.60 meter tall tunnel. At times they had to wade through knee high water seeping through the soil, they had to avoid the high voltage power line and the gas line, and most of them could not walk upright.
The tunnel was dug out with hand tools only, from both sides of the airstrip. The only communication between the two digging teams, was brave people running across the field while avoiding snipers bullits from the hills. On the city side 45 tons of metal from factories was used to support tunnel walls and roof, on the other side 170 cubic meters of wood from the mountains. A total of 2800 cubic meters soil was dug out, and reused to build protection against snipers.
The tunnel was used for military purposes by night, and by day to let citisens through to buy supplies on the country side. At the beginning everything was carried on their backs or in their hands, but after a while metal tracks were laid down, and different kinds of wagons built. Wounded and sick people were brought through, too.
Only the first 20 meters of the Butmir side of the tunnel is preserved. The preservation and establishment of the museum is done by father and son Bajro and Edis Kolar. Digging of the tunnel started in the back yard of their bombed house in the village Donji Kotorac. Both father and son were enrolled in the Bosnian army, and were after a while assigned tasks concerning the tunnel. The grandparents of the family moved back to the house, father and son made themselves a shack in the remains of the garage. Grandmother Šida was regularly seen providing tired tunnel wanderers with water and sometimes bread, and she also invited people into her house to get warm during winter.
One day maybe a larger and more up to date museum will be built, and more of the tunnel preserved. But if it wasn`t for the Kolar family, all of it would have been lost by now.
Pic. 2: Tunnel
Pic. 3: Map with front lines
Pic. 4: Backpacks and pictures from the tunnel
Pic. 5: Tools used to dig the tunnel
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While walking around, it is impossible not to notice the graveyards. They are everywhere . Some cemeteries were quite large, but most of them were very small, with just a few graves placed next to mosques or people’s homes. The dates were mostly 1992 and 1993, which told me that most of these people were killed in the last war. Leave a Comment
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 by neodue
Bijelo dugme ("White Button") were a highly influential rock band stationed in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, originally when in Yugoslavia. Active between 1974 and 1989, they are considered to have been the most popular band ever to exist in the former Yugoslavia and one of the most important acts of the Yugoslav Pop and Rock scene.
Bijelo dugme was founded by Goran Bregović who was born in Vukovar, who spent much of his childhood in Music School, studying violin, from which he was expelled for "lack of talent". Soon after his expulsion, his mother bought him a guitar, and thus, Bijelo dugme was born. Goran Bregović often admitted that his main motivation for forming the band was because "girls were more receptive to musicians". Bregović was the band's sole composer and wrote most of the lyrics, although some of the most popular Bijelo dugme songs weren't written by Bregović, for example: Ima neka tajna veza, Glavni junak jedne knjige, Šta bi dao da si na mom mjestu, Pristao sam biću sve što hoće were written by Duško Trifunović, Da sam pekar, Selma were written by Vlado Dijak, Loše vino by Arsen Dedić etc.
After recruiting the band's first line up, Bijelo dugme under the name Jutro (translation: "Morning") were turned down by Sarajevo based record company Diskoton, but another record company, Jugoton, signed them up to record a single. The first single was named Kad bi' bio bijelo dugme (translation: "If I were a white button"). After the single was released, the band's manager talked Bregović into changing the band's name to Bijelo dugme.
With its charismatic vocalist Željko Bebek, the band soon reached superstardom in the former Yugoslavia, and, as one newspaper put it, sold more records than there were record players in the country. The pinnacle of the band's career was 1979's Bitanga i princeza, an album often heralded as their most mature with vocalist Željko Bebek. They were often referred to as the Yugoslav Beatles.
The turn of the decade brought the rise of numerous Yugoslav New Wave artists, including Azra, and Bijelo dugme soon found their popularity sinking, to which they reacted by reinventing themselves for their 1980 release Doživjeti stotu, featuring a much more New Wave sound. The chorus of their ska song "Ha, Ha, Ha" was used as the title of a compilation album by various artists Svi marš na ples! which was released by Jugoton in 1981.
1984 brought the departure of Željko Bebek to pursue a solo career and Mladen Vojičić - Tifa was recruited to replace him for their 1984 self-titled release. He in turn left the band because of inner conflicts and was replaced by Alen Islamović, formerly vocalist of the heavy metal band Divlje jagode for their last two folk-inspired records.
The band disbanded in 1989 after Alen Islamović checked into hospital for chest pains during their last tour, without telling anyone he was ill. The real reasons have never been elaborated, but most people suspect the dissolution of Yugoslavia caused the breakup of the band, because the band was often seen as a symbol of unity among the peoples of Yugoslavia.
Alen Islamovic, "Đici" Jankelic, Milic Vukašinovic, Goran Bregovic, Željko Bebek, Zoran Redžić and Vlado Pravdic.Bijelo dugme's biggest hits were: Lipe cvatu, A i ti me iznevjeri, Đurđevdan, Ne spavaj mala moja muzika dok svira, Ipak poželim neko pismo, Ima neka tajna veza, Pristao sam biću sve što hoće, Selma, Loše vino, Jer kad ostariš, Lažeš, Kad zaboraviš juli, Hajdemo u planine, Napile se ulice, Ružica si bila, sada više nisi, Bitanga i princeza, Pljuni i zapjevaj moja Jugoslavijo, Sanjao sam noćas da te nemam, Te noći kad umrem, Nakon svih ovih godina...
The band reunited for three concerts in Sarajevo, Zagreb and Belgrade in 2005 with all three vocalists, but without the drummer Goran "Ipe" Ivandić who died in Belgrade, Serbia in 1994.
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 Bascarsija, Sarajevo, 1986 by karenincalifornia
The Old Town Center was heavily damaged during the war. Leave a Comment
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 Serbian Orthodox Cathedral,
Sarajevo, 1986 by karenincaliforniaLeave a Comment
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 Bobsled run on Mt. Trebevic by karenincalifornia
This is the bobsled run on Mt. Trebevic as it looked in 1986. Most Olympic facilities have been destroyed by the war. The bobsled run now starts in Republika Srpska and ends in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Leave a Comment
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 Monument to Gavrilo Princip,
Sarajevo, 1986 by karenincalifornia
In 1986, you could find the footsteps of Gavrilo Princip, where he stood in 1914 as he assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Princip was a 19 year old Bosnian Serb who believed that Bosnia and Herzergovina should be free of the Austro-Hungarian rule.
Even in 1986, it was debatable whether Princip was a hero or a terrorist. As a result of the war in 1992-95, all tributes to Princip were removed - the bridge and street named after him were renamed. I understand that the cement block which marked his footsteps and monument to Princip shown in this picture have also been removed. Leave a Comment
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 Miljatska River, Sarajevo,
1986 by karenincaliforniaLeave a Comment
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