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U2 first became involved with Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, which stemmed from the ethnic struggle between Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Muslim government forces. Once Bosnia and Herzegovina had declared their independence from Yugoslavia, the Serbs from Sarajevo suburbs surrounded the capital, Sarajevo, as they planned to include a territory of the country as part of their new Serbian state of ...
Director Nenad Cicin-Sain revisits the violence of the Bosnian War, detailing how the band U2 rose to the moment with activism, inclusion and a concert.
Inela Nogić (born 1976) became world-famous during the Siege of Sarajevo when she won the 1993 Miss Besieged Sarajevo contest, [1] which was held in a basement in an effort to avoid the barrage of sniper attacks from Serb militias. Nogić and the other contestants held up a banner that read "Don't let them kill us".
During the song, the video screen showed images from Carter's Miss Sarajevo documentary, including footage of the girls taking part in the beauty contest and the banner reading "Please don't let them kill us". [23] [22] Bono apologized for the rocky performance at the end of the song, saying "Sarajevo, this song was written for you. I hope you ...
Watching “Kiss the Future,” a documentary about the band U2’s relationship with wartorn Sarajevo in the 1990s, it’s hard not to think: “We’ve seen this movie before.” That’s not to ...
He managed to leave Sarajevo in 1993, during the second year of the siege that ultimately lasted 1,425 days, from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996. [1] He is often mistakenly identified as a member of the Sarajevo String Quartet, which played on throughout the siege. [2] Smailović performing in Sarajevo's partially destroyed National Library ...
Welcome to Sarajevo is a 1997 war drama film directed by Michael Winterbottom, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and is based on the book Natasha's Story by Michael Nicholson. The film stars Stephen Dillane , Woody Harrelson , Marisa Tomei , Emira Nušević, Kerry Fox , Goran Višnjić , James Nesbitt , and Emily Lloyd .
song by singer Nazif Gljiva as 10th on his 1992 album Ljiljanima do pobjede [1] "Burek" 'Burek' Edin Dervišhalidović: Edin Dervišhalidović: Srđan Kurpjel: 2004. song by singer Dino Merlin about national symbols of Bosnia (name of a dish is album title) [2] "Čuvaj babo našu Bosnu" ' Take care[,] Dad[,] of our Bosnia ' I. Mujezin: Rizo ...