“The twentieth century began in Sarajevo. The twenty-first century has begun in Sarajevo, too”
Susan Sontag (1933-2004)
BOSNIA
In many ways, the Bosnia war marked all of us. For Bosnians, it was a time of unimaginable suffering and humiliation; for the rest of the world, it was an awakening of dark and inconvenient “Balkan ghosts.” What stayed with all of us are the questions that are never to late to ask: How did we respond to that horror, could we have done more, and above all, what would we do next time if the ghost of genocide comes again, but this time closer to us?
Videos Related to Music and Humanity
Story of Sarajevo String Quartet
Mozart Requiem in Sarajevo, Conductor Zubin Mehta
Selected Articles and Books Related to Sarajevo String Quartet & Music and Humanity
Sarajevo Roses: War Memoir of a Peacekeeper by Anne Marie Du Preez Bezrob
I Lived to Tell the World: Stories from Survivors of Holocaust, Genocide, and the Atrocities of War by Elizabeth Mehren