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NOTES FROM BOSNIA

“I wrote the following when I left Sarajevo last summer and I feel the same way leaving this time… I have met a hundred stories, I have heard a thousand tears. I will never forget what I have witnessed, but mostly what I have not witnessed in this traumatized, giddy, grieving land.
I have drunk from the fountains of Sarajevo - I am destined to return....[ RQP ]

June 1997:

• (6/16) First Reflections: Stream of Consciousness
• (6/28) Sarajevo: Expats, cigarettes, and cevapi

July 1997:

• (7/1) Sretan Juli: A "war" tour around Sarajevo with Hasim
• (7/7) Jadransko More: The trip to Igrane
• (7/10) Mine Awareness: Quite a lesson
• (7/15) Dog Days in BiH: Ricardo Muti, Dubrovnik
• (7/25) Dobro Dosli u Tuzlu: PX, Tuzla, Moose

August 1997:

• (8/7) Quiet Week on Sniper Alley: Zdenka, taxis, accidents
• (8/13) Moving in the Balkans: Cars, lamb stops, and a bustrip from Split

December 1997

• (12/5) Oslobodjenje means "Freedom" in Bosnian
• (12/7) Rites of Passage: Meliha’s wedding

March 1998

• (3/21) The Forgotten Ones: A trip to the edge, Bihac

August 1998

• (8/26) In South Bosnia, all they want is to go home.

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