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The More Things Change

In January 1998, I was fortunate to accompany a small group of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) - Doctors without Borders, as they carried out their work in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia. Despite the fact that this was two years after the war had ended, the images still depicted a country ripped apart by war.
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  • Vukovar's nickname 'Croatian Stalingrad' stems from being devastated by Serb-dominated army forces in the early days of Croatia's war for independence from the ex-Yugoslavia. It suffered a three-month long siege before being captured by Serb forces in November 1991.
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  • During the 1992-1995 war, Grbavica was occupied early by the Army of Republika Srpska and remained under Serb control throughout the siege. From the tall residential buildings, Serb snipers target the Sarajevo populace along Sniper Alley. The neighbourhood was heavily looted and destroyed.
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  • During the 1992-1995 war, Grbavica was occupied early by the Army of Republika Srpska and remained under Serb control throughout the siege. From the tall residential buildings, Serb snipers targeted the Sarajevo populace along Sniper Alley. The neighbourhood was heavily looted and destroyed.
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  • 58 year old Catholic Croat. Praying outside his bombed out home, Ostrovo, Croatia. He's describes his place "as not fit for a dog to live in" 1998
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  • 58 year old Catholic Croat. Praying outside his bombed out home, Ostrovo, Croatia. He's describes his place "as not fit for a dog to live in" 1998
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  • 58 year old Catholic Croat. Lit only by candles, the walls are adorned with pin up girls, Ostrovo, Croatia. 1998
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  • Siege of Sarajevo (1992-96) Exact figures of casualties are still disputed but it is estimated that approx. 19,000 people died, 10% of them children.<br />
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18,000 Serbian troops stationed in the hills surrounding city, besieged the 340,000 citizens with its constant artillery, mortar,  sniper rifles and heavy machine-gun fire. <br />
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Aside from the human cost of war, the cities infrastructure  also suffered greatly - buildings, roads, waterworks, power supplies. A recent report suggests that the Serb forces caused an estimated $18.5billion of damage.
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  • Bird woman,  Bascarsija square in the old town, Sarajevo. 1998.
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  • In January 1998. A small group of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) carry out their work in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Despite the fact that this was two years after the war had ended the images still depicted a country ripped apart by war. <br />
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An MSF mobile team at a make shift doctors surgery in Ostrovo, Croatia. MSF provided curative health care to elderly and vulnerable populations in 12 remote villages in the region until March 1998.The patients were mainly elderly Serbs.
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  • An MSF mobile team at a make shift doctors surgery in Ostrovo, Croatia. MSF provided curative health care to elderly and vulnerable populations in 12 remote villages in the region until March 1998.The patients were mainly elderly Serbs.
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  • An MSF mobile team at a make shift doctors surgery in Ostrovo, Croatia. MSF provided curative health care to elderly and vulnerable populations in 12 remote villages in the region until March 1998.The patients were mainly elderly Serbs.
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  • Snow covered cemetery, showing mass killings in 1993, Sarajevo, 1998
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  • Snow covered cemetery, showing mass killings in 1993, Sarajevo, 1998
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  • Vrbanja bridge, Sarajevo. Re- named the Suada and Olga Bridge, after Admira Ismić and Boško Brkić. The couple were natives of Bosnia and Herzegovina living in the city of Sarajevo. She was Muslim, and he a Serb. They were killed by snipers on 19 May 1993, in broad daylight while trying to cross the Vrbanja bridge to the Serb-occupied territory of Grbavica. Bosko was shot by sniper fire, and died. Ismic, also wounded by sniper fire, crawled to her childhood sweetheart, put an arm around him, and died at his side, never trying to escape to safety herself.<br />
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Their tragic story was told worldwide over the next week as Serbs and Muslims argued over who was responsible for shooting them, and which side should risk the treacherous journey onto the bridge to recover the bodies and bury them.<br />
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The couple's bodies laid side by side on the bridge for eight days, until finally the Serbian side went in under cover of night to drag the corpses away. Muslim prisoners later claimed they were tethered by their Serbian captors and forced to go out on the bridge to drag the by-then decaying bodies back.
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  • In 1992, Sarajevo came under a 1,425-day siege, and the Holiday Inn, located on "Sniper Alley,"  was one of the most dangerous places in the city, due to its proximity to the front line. During the 1992-5 war it became the epic centre for the world's media.
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  • Bombed out tower block near  the Holiday Inn and “Sniper Alley," Sarajevo, 1998
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  • Car used as a temporary book stall, Sarajevo, 1998.
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  • Bombed building and land mines,  Sarajevo, 1998
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  • Hungarian in his home, Korod, Croatia, 1998
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  • An MSF mobile team at a make shift doctors surgery in Ostrovo, Croatia. MSF provided curative health care to elderly and vulnerable populations in 12 remote villages in the region until March 1998.The patients were mainly elderly Serbs.
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  • An MSF mobile team at a make shift doctors surgery in Ostrovo, Croatia. MSF provided curative health care to elderly and vulnerable populations in 12 remote villages in the region until March 1998.The patients were mainly elderly Serbs.
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  • Family, Vukovar, easternmost edge of Croatia,1998
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  • Fahro Bascelija School is in the Muslim town of Gorazde. The project, ‘Special Classrooms for Children with Disabilities’ was established in 1997 by UNICEF (Bosnia and Herzegovina) with Medicins du Monde, a French government organisation.
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  • Fahro Bascelija School in Gorazde. The project, ‘Special Classrooms for Children with Disabilities’ was established in<br />
1997 by UNICEF (Bosnia and Herzegovina) with Medicins du Monde.
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  • Fahro Bascelija School in Gorazde. The project, ‘Special Classrooms for Children with Disabilities’ was established in<br />
1997 by UNICEF (Bosnia and Herzegovina) with Medicins du Monde.
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  • Army boots hanging in a doorway, Sarajevo
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  • From 1993-2002  MSF bore witness to the war stricken former Yugoslavia, marked by ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and a neglectful international community.<br />
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MSF first began work in Srebrenica (in Bosnia and Herzegovina) as part of a UN convoy in 1993, one year after the Bosnian War had begun.<br />
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Throughout the war in the former Yugoslavia, Doctors Without Borders ran surgery programs, distributed medical supplies and drugs to hospitals and clinics, operated mobile clinics, and worked in refugee camps.
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  • Grbavica, a neighbourhood of Sarajevo which was one of the most traumatised neighbourhoods in the city. <br />
During the 1992-1995 war, Grbavica was occupied early by the Army of Republika Srpska and remained under Serb control throughout the siege. From the tall residential buildings, Serb snipers target the Sarajevo populace along Sniper Alley.
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  • All that remains. Hungarian Reformed Church, Laslovo/Szentlászló, Croatia.<br />
Built in 1878, destroyed in October 1991.
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  • During the 1992-1995 war, Grbavica was occupied early by the Army of Republika Srpska and remained under Serb control throughout the siege. From the tall residential buildings, Serb snipers target the Sarajevo populace along Sniper Alley. The neighbourhood was heavily looted and destroyed.
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  • Land mines were used extensively during the war by all sides in the conflict: about 1.5 million were laid across the country between 1991-95.<br />
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In 1997, more than 600,000 refugees still remained outside the country; landmines have impeded the return of many. Those who do return often find that their land has become a minefield. These returning refugees have little mine awareness, and, having been away from their communities, they do not know the location of minefields.<br />
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There are thought to be still between 51,000 and 100,000 mines covering a 310-square-mile area across the country.  At least 509 people have been killed and another 1,466 wounded by the devices in Croatia since the war ended.<br />
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It is hoped that by 2019 all suspected minefields will be cleared.
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