The City Where They Murdered Yugoslavia
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- I'm not at all happy with how this video turned out. It has so much unachieved potential. But men tried to murder me just a few hours before I shot this and Francesco was traumatized and had to go home immediately, taking the only remaining camera with him. So I did what I could in the hours I was given. In a way, it was cathartic.
As a child, Sarajevo was the first piece of history I "witnessed". It fundamentally altered the entire course of my life, knowing what could happen to us. What does happen to us. It opened my eyes to the other side of the world.
I could have made this video more objective like the others in the series, but I chose not to. Not because I think it will change minds, or because I think it makes the story better. I did it because it was how I felt. And acting on what we feel is precisely what got us here.
Here's to hoping you feel something wiser than the rest of us.
Zygmund de Somogyi created the music for this season and it has been really well done. I didn't ask for this, he volunteered. A good person, that Ziggy: www.zdscomposer.co.uk/
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Next week I'm going to upload the entire season as one video with a "finale" attached on the end that wraps it all back together. But for now, here's a bit of pain for your Saturday.
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I love listening to these stories. Learning more about other cultures is fantastic. Really great to listen post anxiety to relax. Keep up the amazing work man.
This feels like it had to be one of the hardest videos to narrate. Sending love through the internet.
Thank you Evan - I've been following you and your stories since the Arctic trip and have valued everything you cover - light or dark - but it had to be said that this is one of those darknesses that needs to be remembered and learned from - it doesn't look like we are learning over all but I hope... Your stories give me hope... Your stories that show the world in its many splendoured glory and pain so diverse and so universal that we can celebrate the variety and take comfort from the compatibility. Thank you
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#AGREED #TRUTH
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In highschool I knew a boy named fuad. He spoke in a really odd manner. Not just because English was his second language, i never would have judged him for that, but because he spoke like a mafia man.
Fuad was extremely nice most of the time but also different in a way I didn't understand at the time. Aggressive. Defensive. Trying hard to fit in with the dominant kids around him. More so than normal with teenagers.
Later he and I would end up getting our first jobs at the same fast food place and became really good friends.
What I didn't understand in highschool was that he had literally learned English from a copy of Scarface they had in his old village. None of us ever knew how old he was when he moved to the US, we just figured his parents were very traditional and didn't speak much English raising him here.
We called him Yugo half the time and he liked the nickname. None of us knew anything about Yugoslavia.
I didn't understand why he might have been overly defensive in school until we were friends later..
Spending time in a friend's basement, under the influence, he told us stories he had always kept to himself.
Stories about how he and couple family members were all that were left alive. Stories about how his dad had been forced to escape the country on his own and find work, leaving him with his grandmother in order to protect them and to later be able to afford to get them out.
Stories about every single other person he once knew being dead. Stories about men coming down the street they lived on throwing grenades thru the windows of every single house. Stories about his grandmother picking him up and turning the heavy kitchen table over on top of them both when it was finally their window that a grenade came thru.
I still don't know what to say, other than that Fuad is one of the nicest and most important people I will have ever met in my life growing up here in the Midwest of America.
Thank you for being fuad's friend
this made me cry harder than the video itself. man, fuck, humans can really suck sometimes. makes me feel guilty for surviving honestly, when so many of my family have been killed as well. it's hell out there. but the fact that your friend was able to keep moving forward does give me a bittersweet twinge in my chest. i don't really have the words, i guess.
He didn't just survive. He is, by normal american standards, far far more successful now than myself and many of of us who used to hang out together, all of us who had such an easy start in life compared to him.
@@BothHands1 You said it well 👍
zechs black You are Dick (no disrespect here)you just made me cry 😢 because I am also from Bosnia 🇧🇦 and I know All what happened there,, I was also thrown out of my home,property everything was burned to the ground or bombarded..Land mines everywhere still in the ground,,And now I have to live in Fokken Canada 🇨🇦 which I am grateful for,Canada is nice but I had my Country,my Home 🏡 my family,my friends,my people..That’s why your Friend was Fuad behaving like that..Now you know,if you see Fuad say Hi 👋 to him,,as for you Have a nice day Sir...
My wife was hit by mortar shrapnel in Sarajevo when she was 13 and eventually escaped the city through that tunnel. Thank you Evan.
@Anthony Tsatsis you are disgusting
Where are you from
My ex gf was born in Sarajevo 1991. She's Serb. War was shit for everyone
What is her name and I'm Happy for you that she escaped and you married her ?
Noice my gradmother was jit by artillery and my father's childhood friend died from shell
Anyone confused by the ending, they were robbed at gun point by people likely pretending to be police officers. Evan posted about it on the 21st June 2019 on his Twitter
Thanks buddy.
In some other places he would have been robbed by real police officers.
@Boots Jew He is talking about the end title card.
@Boots Jew Read the credits
This was filmed last June?
My brother went over there with a group called "Convoy of hope" from the UK in 1993. He is a diesel fitter and mechanic, so it was his task to keep the trucks running.
He couldn't believe what he found, as he described it "people no different to himself who had absolutely nothing left".
One group they delivered aid to were so grateful they insisted that they couldn't accept gifts (tents, clothing and food) without giving something in return, they gave my brother a small wooden handmade cigarette holder.
He's still got it.
That's was really nice. If only the uk Government and french, at that time weren't following a problem of appeasement! Things could have ended alot sooner. Less bloodshed and Bosnia wouldn't be so fucked up, like it is today!!!
I was a young teen in American.. realized then how little people here care.. It is not better but I am blessed, be blessed also.
Once you start thumping those drums, everyone hears the beat differently.
That is a truly great quote
But the subtle beats in the music always ask for clemency for civilians yet humanity fails to recognize that tone
Croat here. I’m sorry you had such bad time in our countries man. But great videos nevertheless. The war in yugoslavia was far too complex for just five episodes, but I think you covered it well. Thanks for showing the world a part of our history.
Did he have a bad time
The Argentinian Forensic Anthropology Team helped digging out the mass graves in Bosnia and figuring the identity of the civilian victims of ethnic cleansing. They are the same people who helped to find out the place of many bodies from people kidnapped and murdered by the death squads of the last Argentinian dictatorship (1976-1983). Their work in other countries is a strange source of pride, as it means our communities are linked in some way by tragedy.
You made a great work with this series. The Balkans and its people are a really beutiful and interesting. Glad you are fine
@CAVKING19DELTA TEXAS I really don't understand what Bosnia has to do with Kosovo...
@Edin743 You can tell he is a mental ward escapee.
@@ermin8038 Yup. Couldn't agree more. Dude must be off his meds.
@CAVKING19DELTA TEXAS
uh get over it you pussy
buhu kosovo is serbija who cares.
people in kosovo care and you in serbia should just mind your own business. according to you maybe even switzerland would belong to serbija
The raw anger in your voice almost brought me to tears. The sheer brutality of that war is something I hope to never have to experience and I do not wish on anyone.
The tragedy is that it could easily happen again, as long as hatred exists.
@@kostam.1113 you didn't watch the video
@@kostam.1113 That is literately the opposite of the point of his video. That is why ethnic nationalism sucks.
Kosta M. Who the fuck can watch this video and come out of it thinking “oh, ethnic nationalism is a fantastic idea! Multiculturalism sucks!”. And mind you, I say this as someone who would unabashedly describe himself as a *civic* nationalist
@@mzple Kosta is a deeply troubled person, and it is sad but 1 or 5 videos wont change their racist mind, i bet they just watched the whole thing and came out wishing no survivors had come out of the massacres.
A kid born in Sarajevo here. I can only say thank you & congratulate you for this great piece of work. As a glimpse of what sort of decision people had to make let me tell my little piece of this horror.
Sarajevo is in a valley surrounded by hills on all sides, it is a very long and narrow city in a roughly Y shape. Once the city came under siege all of the hills were occupied by grenade launchers, sniper nests and patrolling soldiers. The roads in and out are few and far between and all of them of course were heavily patrolled. Patrolled by people who were looking for reasons to shoot someone, not the opposite. Leaving the city was just as dangerous if not more so. In that climate my parents decided we had to leave, leaving everything and everyone behind. Now since I have a brother my parents decided that each one will take one of us, split up and go their separate ways out. Logic being, it gives bigger odds for at least one kid coming out alive, hopefully with that parent still alive to take care of them.
Think about having a significant other, two kids and sitting down at a table one evening and having this discussion. Relinquishing all hope, all happiness and all love, to be able to have such a heartbreaking discussion. Can't go all together, it's like putting all eggs in one basket. Can't keep the kids together with one parent due to same logic. Have to split up with one kid each and hope for the best. We all came out alive but it so easily could have been a different outcome. I know of many cases of these unfortunate outcomes and thankmy family's lucky stars.
The stories of people who went through this hell are really heartbreaking and what's worse, people don't understand the exact same thing (or even worse in my opinion) happened in Syria. Its just something in human nature that allows for a relatively small percentage of sociopaths in our society to gain positions of power. In my opinion it will never end, as the rest of us will never learn.
Been there too. I know exactly what you went through.
Damn, man... Happy y'all are OK.
@Damir Hajrulahovic I am curious what place were you trying to flee from? Dude, you got to understand that alot of people lost their lives in that war because they were naive and stupid!!! It's true. Even today many won't admit it. But if you take a look you will see.
"relatively small percentage of sociopaths in our society to gain positions of power "
... most of the population is dominated by sociopaths ... See Milgram Experiments ... around 85% of the population can be easily brainwashed too ... See Aldous Huxley
how many wannabe serial killers in the population
there is a lot of darkness in populations that few want to talk about ... the idea that it is a few bad apples is not confronting reality ... this world was built on organized crime structures controlled by psychopaths but rarely is it talked about
I am a NATO and UN Peace Keeping Veteran from Canada, that was in Bosnia. The 5 episodes you did was a reminder of places I have been, along with the horrors that Mankind can inflict on to each other, whether be for selfish or greed, and the worst, disillusion. When I returned back to Canada, I seriously re-thought my life, and the experience made me realize how lucky I was a Canadian.
Thanks for being there.
@@ilijabosnjak76 well they did stop it whenever they could. Medak comes in mind for example. However they could only do so much before they would go from peacekeepers to actively involved army. You people just loved to massacre each other. Enjoying it so much you even imported and welcomed Mujahedeens to do it while Serbians had their weekend warriors doing it for fun as well. Bosnia is a clusterfuck of a country... always was. And knowing that you people wanted to break away with a referendum although an important part of the people didn't want to have anything with it. Here is a smart idea... Let's just ignore them. Referendums only work in homogeneous society but you went with it anyway fully knowing what will happen but thinking that Ottomans or Tito or someone will rise up to protect and enforce your will. But yes, it is this random Canadians fault that he was there with UN trying to unfuck the unfuckable.
uporabn1k No We common people didn't want the war,,I was in Sarajevo 1992 when snipers started shootings at us..It was our stupid politicians and Global agenda to dissolve Yugoslavia..It was artificial creation in the first place and real Tito wasn't even real Tito..I love ❤️ my country but it's a piece of Shit,but it's sad that so many people died because of dumb idiots..
@@ilijabosnjak76 well, maybe you didn't want war, but I don't know what other thought. 63% of people came to vote for independence; Serbs didn't vote. It was obvious what would happen if Bosnia leaves SFRJ in this way yet 99% voted to leave. And politicians didn't care to consolidate with the Serbs. People voted themselves into war doesn't matter if they wanted it or not.
@@ilijabosnjak76 Well said my friend ! Right on the money...
Perfect, after watching this I can watch the entire series again, just to get a second view on the astonishingly interesting and moving history of Yugoslavia. And to pick up all the details I missed the first time. Thank you Evan for bringing us these stories nobody else wanted to talk about. Please never stop doing that.
My father served at Srebrenica, as part of Dutchbat. He doesn't speak much about it, likely never will, but he has made one thing clear.
That was a disgrace and a stain on the honour of the Dutch military, the Dutch government and the United Nations. We promised to protect those people, and we didn't, and their deaths are our responsibility.
I don't know why it should be stain on Dutch army or government. Foreign troops under UN have no real power to stop anything.
I feel the same way about Rwanda, DD.
@@yuslaven89 power or no power, it's utterly disgraceful to turn your back while those you were supposed to protect are being slauthered. Besides there are well documented cases of horrible, condescending and outright racist behaviour by dutch soldiers towards the bosnians in Srebrenica (including in the museum whose sign appears towards the beginning of the video).
As a Brit who served, yes it was a stain on all of us!.
@@yuslaven89 If you think like that, then why they even were there? They only had one job, to protect civilians. And they failed. Cowardice or ineptness, whatever... It's not that someone from this part of the world points a finger at them, but it's on their own to recognize and feel the guilt. That's the only honorable thing to do.
The pure emotion in this video has made it a work of art. One that I very much did not enjoy watching, you can't enjoy something this dark, yet it has power, it has the raw and angry power this topic deserves. Thank you for making this video.
Yeah I hated reviewing it and won't watch it a second time.
@@RareEarthSeries As I posted, I respectfully disagree with your tone in this video.
@@annai6393 and what exactly is wrong with his voice tone?
@@malizlato Normally his presentation is very neutral and I much prefer that. I really disliked his tone in this one, so emontional, not pleasant to listen to.
No, it's called appeal to emotions because the video is propaganda
I made it to Sarajevo this summer and I have to say that I have never been to a place like that ever before. I am not sure I can even describe it properly. There is too much history in this place. Horrible history. Every time I climbed up a more or less high hill and looked down, there were those thin, snow-white marble gravestones scattered throughout the city. Everywhere.
It seemed that not a single photoshot could be taken in the city without one of those endless cemeteries in the background. It felt so terrible. It was scary. Genuinely scary.
The city is so beautiful, but everything you see are those gravestones with amazing decorations and names. Hundreds of names of young people with the same year of death. Bulletholes. 'Roses of Sarajevo' painted red.
And that is probably the most tragic part of the story: the war is over, but life is not. The dead cannot be returned, and former enemies you can't (and never will) forgive stand next to you in a queue, waiting for fresh bread. And you have nothing left but to accept it.
I can't imagine living in that city now. If I had to carry on living there, I would have probably gone mad.
Thank you very much for this video.
Rare Earth indeed.
You learn not to notice this stuff tbh...
1:06 That is the memorial for the children of Sarajevo who were killed during the Siege, 1992-1995. I was there last summer, just walking aimlessly, as I like to do in a foreign city. It took me awhile to gather what this thing represented, because it looked beautiful. On the side, not visible in the video, there are seven pillars with the names of the children written on them.
On my way there, I remembered, I saw a house with its side opposite to the hills in the south riddled with bullet holes, as if the Siege ended yesterday, and I remembered that before that, in those hills, I walked past a football game in a street there attended by a new generation children. I haven´t thought anything specific, much less something profound. I just felt sadness, but also hope for the future. Please, let´s make sure this will never happen again.
Thank you for the video, and all the best from Prague, Czech Republic.
I wish we had our Velvet Revolution instead all this mess.
I'm sorry, but it is very probable that such things will happen again and again ... until stopped for good by the workers' power, under communism. Take communism away, what do you get? Nothing but civil and plain wars. Because war benefits the fat cats ... I cross my heart for China's future, for example ...
I remember in Albania, 1991, communism was thrown away and a few weeks later already, some feud murders were again committed, the first ones after 1945.
I was there and just couldn't bring myself to step up to the monument and read those names.
"Ethnic nationalism is the lowest form of nationalism, because it doesn't stop until everyone is in their corners burying their dead, again and again and again."
Amen.
ethnic nationalism is the only type of nationalism, the rest is not nationalism is bootlicking
but yeah let's mix ethnic nationalism with jingoism that sure how can we destroy western civilization without destroying what makes the european people stand together for their nation and family
@@orjelmort2330 Said the guy with the german Nazi tank operator as avatar lmao
GPCImpulse ok and?
@@orjelmort2330 If you don't get what's wrong with that I don't know what to tell you
I'll tell you man, as a Croat from eastern Croatia having lived my childhood in a war.. my city was encircled from the north, east and south by Serb paramilitaries and the YPA for more than 5 years. It still weighs heavy over all of our lives, the people who lived through it as civilians. Thank you for this series.
Why did the militaries encircle cities and besiege them like that?
Osijek?
Hey saw the description I glad your ok and hopefully this dosen't shake you or your crew to much and you bounce back fast good luck to you and your crew
It was in June I'm all good.
@@RareEarthSeries You filmed this last June?
@@RareEarthSeries you've got to explain dude. You can't just leave us hanging. Really glad you're ok.
@@fishsmell2570 No, he doesn't. He can explain it if he wants to. Nobody is "owed" anything.
@@nitehawk86 heck yea. It's like if I told you I had 2 fully functioning wieners and didn't have show you a picture. Just saying. Thankfully I don't.
You could really sense your emotion in this last episode.
I enjoyed this series very much.
(not the killing but the way you told it.)
Such a beautiful country brought to such ruin because of a few maniacs.
I can’t thank you enough for this series. I spent a semester studying Central and Eastern Europe. This was in 1993. What happened to Yugoslavia following my classes still haunts me. Enough so, that I’m headed there next week. This series couldn’t have been more timely.
Nice work!
Welcome to Balkans
AC x M I’m posting vids throughout the trip.
@@steelemedia subbed looking forward to the videos
Hope you have a safe trip.
Somehow I’ve founded almost every single vid in this series in under five minutes from its posting
What's up with that? I experienced the same.
@@gabrielfraser2109 The elusive algorithm is in his favor.
Do you have the notificaiton bell clicked? Aside from parsing through all of your subscriptions, that is the only way to force youtube to show you stuff.
In the early 2000s we got new neighbors from bosnia. The oldest son was the same age as me. I never understood why he was so different till my parents told me about the war there. I heard him cry and scream through many nights and could never understand what he had to go through
I've never seen you angrier, and I feel this energy so much in this video. Thank you for bringing a new form of understanding to this war for someone who never really began to grasp it, and now does even less so. War should not be understood.
What a strong way to end, with just the right amount of moral outrage, humility and indignation.
Well done and thank you Rare Earth.
I have a very deep respect for the fact that you recorded this stunning video under such stress. Bravo!
Thank you, for making this video. I found this video very thought-provoking but that was the only thought I want to post is a thank you for telling/sharing some of the harder to swallow story, as often they are the most important...impactful even.
Evan, this is an absolutely fantastic series of essays. Thank you for sharing not just the facts, but the humanity of it all. The human element. Thank you.
I've never felt a connection to a city until I've started to learn about the siege Sarajevo. Living and growing up in Serbia in the '90s nobody ever talked about the siege, mostly because nobody knew, slowly in the 2000 the voices started tho creep in to the mainstream. Newspaper articles, testemonials... I remember listening to a radio show, and this woman Mima Vuković-Kurić talked about her expirience of the siege, I cried like a baby for an hour. I felt shame. That my countryman could do such things, and be celebrated here like fucking heroes.
When I first came to Sarajevo I fell in love the moment I steped out of the bus. Then I cried again, and again. A (soon to be)grown man, walking around a city crying at every corner. Ofcourse it was not the city itself that made me fall for it's charms, it was THE RAJA! I know that things will never be the same, some say that "Raja iz Saraj'va" no longer exist, I tend to disagree.
Pozdrav za raju i sve dobre ljude, jebem ti rat, da ti jebem, opet ću se rasplakati...
@ S II - Much respect and love to you S II, you have a big heart ! Svaka cast Majstore
Jedinstvo, al zapravo ❤
You're reaction is one of the reasons why I wish we would stop referring to Serbs or Croats but rather Chetniks or Oustachis. It's an unjust simplification because not all Serbs or Croats where part of this and many fought against those fascists. This is coming from a non Yougoslave who was deeply involved with the defence of Sarajevo. Peace and justice require truths however complexe they are !
I'm just wondering did you cry the same for Bratunac and Kravice as you cried for Sarajevo
@@NN-rw2vn we are NOT playing this game, sorry...
Wow. Simply...wow. Speechless.
Thank you, Evan and crew.
Thank you, Evan, for a great series.
Such a juxtaposition of beautiful footage and great tragedy.
Well done and, again, thank you!
I had the plates pulled on my car a few years back. I called for a tow truck, loaded the car, and on the ride back with the driver him and I began to talk. For a tow truck driver - he was the most soft spoken, polite, and humble one I could imagine.
He was a teenager during these years and lived nearby Sarajevo. I was aware of the conflict, and the complex history of the region. As we got deeper into our conversation he divulged into the atrocities he remembered, specifically the soldiers going house to house, systematically murdering the families around him.
He remembers the night his father took the family into the forest with their tents and camping supplies. They left in the evening at dusk, and hiked most of the night. When returning a week later, they were met with the partially burned corpses of their neighbours, strewn across the front yards of their own houses.
If I recall correctly his family fled to other regions of Bosnia, before moving to Canada.
I was born in the US in Dec of 2001 and as an adult now learning this, I can say holy shit. I knew of the mess in the 90s in Yugoslavia, but this really puts the horror in my soul about how bad this really was
So you just turned 18?
No offense (really!) but despite the US considering you an adult in some senses(they'll happily send you off to war, or to prison for life) the human brain doesn't finish development until about 26.
My advice is not to be in a hurry to be an adult. I'd give anything to be your age again, and despite being old enough to be your parent, I've never seen myself as an adult, and I hope I never will.
@@morrigan191 I get u
Even if the video didn’t hit its full potential, I’m still happy that you finished what you started and I hope that everyone in the crew is alright after everything.
Thank you for shedding light on this
This was a great series. Made me stop and think. It is easy to learn about a far away event in news clips or books but this put a more human face on it. Keep up the great work.
Incredibly well-put. Powerful series, something to be proud of. Thank you - May we ALL learn to celebrate our differences and respect them. Please.
I recently got fired from my job, but after watching your videos, it gives me inspiration to do what I want to do, so maybe it's a new fresh start? I don't know, but as soon as I get a new job I'll contribute on Patreon for sure. Godspeed!
Great series, Evan. Well done.
Amazing work! Next week will be a treat!!
I disagree.
The real monster was every last pathetic, spineless excuse of a male who fired a weapon at those civilians.
The clerks who sent them pay.
The quartermasters who sent them ammo.
The family members who honored them and treated them with respect.
Each one of them are the real monsters- an angry man who people refuse to follow is just that, an angry man.
As someone who spend summers in Bosnia where my relatives lived I can only say that my experience was great, great people! I lived in neighboring republic that saw the rise of opportunist who played on the lowest in humans, within a few years from normal society all scum surfaced since the opportunist provided them with opportunity to go to war against neighbors to steal and kill under nationalist banner. As French phylosopher Renan stated a nationalist is one who do not know his/her history and hate neighbors . Your episode about San Marino evoked great thinking of their leader of the time when replied to Napoleon, empires come and go but neighbors are eternal. Within that time society decayed rapidly and war became reality. Today remnants and "upgrades" of these "smradovi" as we call it (english does not provide adequate translation although some will point out as stinkers but meaning is much deeper and darker) are still ruling and there is no end in the sight. Criminals are front runners with a fame and place in the upper society, the cool people. Just remember, every country with inept and malicious leaders and politicians can bring normal country to chaos within a span of a few years. Good series!
Your profile pic has the Croatian chessboard on it, but your comment might as well be about our own smradovi in Serbia... I don't think the rest of Europe is that much better than us but Balkan sure is a cursed peninsula.
@@djdjukic Pozdrav, komentar se odnosi na sve one sovinisticke licnosti koje su putem rata se obogatili te i dalje sede na istim pozicijama samo pod drugim imenom. S obzirom da sam otisao pred rat ali sam proziveo 25 godina u socijalistickoj Jugoslaviji imao sam priliku iz prve ruke da vidim sta ce uslediti. Ja im porucujem tada nismo znali sta smo imali ali danas znaju sta su izgubili, sedam jadnih drzava koje su zavisne od drugih i u kojima vlastodrsci su upravnici tudjinu jer su sve resurse rasprodali vani. Nazalost, ne samo Evropa nego i Amerika i ono sto se desilo u Jugoslaviji doci ce i do ovih napomenutih u skoroj buducnosti. Sve najbolje!
Great video man, felt the emotion and frustration in your voice
Love you, Canadian guy. Wow. You elevate the spaces you inhabit man. Great series. Looking forward to more. Take a break and enjoy something awesome.
You often move me with your incredible stories, but rarely am I crying while commenting. I remember feeling so fecking helpless at that time. I wasn't anyone who had a connection there, I wasn't in the military, I was just human. I remember hearing about the civilians, especially the children, when I had small children myself. I hated those who harmed them - on whatever side. I blamed the UN for not doing enough. But when it came down to it, it was those who started it all off who should take the lion's share of the blame and if they're still alive, suffer for it.
I read your story below the video. I hope you and Francesco are doing well. I am not even going to pretend to understand what that feels like except to think that it must have been bloody horrific.
Don't think that this wasn't the right way to tell this story, Evan, it was perfect. Don't change a thing. Don't wish you could change a thing. You told the actual story - the one that matters. Much love to you and Francesco. Hope you're back out there soon and opening our eyes to yet more of the world's often hidden history.
Balkan's problem has always been that "One side's hero is the other side's criminal and vice versa"
the problem in the Balkans are reciprocal fear structures the peoples have built up in themselves against the other peoples there resulting in no one wanting to be a minority in any one area because as a minority you believe you are at risk --> for example, Serbs of BiH wanting to remain in a union with Serbia in the early 90's would be seen by Serbs as a centuries long struggle to be free and united with other Serbs but on the other hand, will be seen as simply the threat of Greater Serbian aspirations by Croats and Bosniaks… a centralised BiH or de-centralised BiH but decentralised on economic centres rather than along ethnic lines will be seen by Bosniaks as inherently democratic and reasonable for a prosperous nation moving forward but Serbs and Croats will see it as a prelude to Muslim domination due to their demographics and which will see Serbs and Croats - constituent peoples of BiH - becoming minorities in their own land suffering what they must by the dictates of Sarajevo
which all leads to a very unfortunately conclusion --> there is no real solution to the problems in Bosnia... they are all going to just playing over and over again
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Yeah, I know, it is complicated. None of the sides is putting themselves in the other side's shoes either (and it is a three sided problem to boot)
@@98091238 there is give the majority serb and croatian part of the country to their respective countries and make bosnia a state with one ethnicity
Fantastic video, well made and superbly narrated. I am sorry you had an unfortunate and barbaric experience during making of your great documentary. For your work I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Please be safe.
Thank you for this... very moving.
Expertly done, Evan. Respectful when possible, honest when necessary. Good work.
The movie „No Man‘s Land“ from 2001 captures this sad story nicely in spirit, recommended watch after this great series.
Its an incredible movie... One that taught a 16 y/o me more about what happened there, and just the condition of mankind and the desperate hopeless situations we will put others we dont even know in, for the pettiest of reasons
Watch it, to feel ashamed of everything
The war, the media, the "peacekeepers" and mostly for to be reminded of all those the world was robbed from meeting
For people who watch it, pay close attention to the dialog in the very last scene.
it's on my list ^_^
"nod and say yes"
also a good one: www.imdb.com/title/tt0116860/
I will never not appreciate you guys making these videos. Every time I watch a Rare Earth video it activates my brain, gives me something to think about. Videos like that are rare nowadays.
Very sad and open minding series, it's something you can never heard about, unless someone who have been there tell the story. Great video, great job man
"I'm not at all happy with how this video turned out. It has so much unachieved potential. But men tried to murder me just a few hours before I shot this and Francesco was traumatized and had to go home immediately, taking the only remaining camera with him. So I did what I could in the hours I was given. In a way, it was cathartic.
"
What the everloving fuck?
I need an explanation.
They were robbed at gun point by fake cops
People getting tired of his filosofy way of telling, he dont look to the invidual but only as the people as a whole, so they looked at him as a people as a whole(a rich american) bye taking a gun and aiming it on him as a indivual and taking his camera
Now some indivual has more money, money to spend at other shops witch make thier country as a whole a better place
JUR O the fuck is wrong with you?
@@juriaanoussoren wierd flex but ok.
@Rare Earth (Evan)
Thank you for spending your precious time on this short documentation.
And thank you for visiting Sarajevo.
Let's just hope people would finally be civilized in the future no matter in which god someone believes or what race and so on. It's a very high goal but let's aim for something high, shall we.
I felt alot of emotion in this video. You really care. Thanks.
Good format. Worthy reminder... before it happens again somewhere else.
Damn we could see the emotions pouring from your body, Terrifying you were robbed at gunpoint but the fact that you decided to roll with the emotions was A+. Even if you didnt the video would have been A+ anyways.
Stay safe out there!
An excellent achievement in making what can so often be otherwise a footnote in history, vividly depicted without visceral violence.
I appreciate it that you topped it so well, with unfettered expression to something as terrible, but so tragically common, that one may often be forgiven to forget; "something like this can happen to all of us"
Dude, this video is just unbelievable. Thank you, greetings from Bosnia
Jesus man. This one was rough to set through. Can only imagine how hard it was to research.
Thank you for sharing.
thank you for your work
Well, time to watch the entire series over so that I can get the full impact for the 5th time
I'll put it out as an hour connected piece next week with an addendum wrapping it up
Glad your ok mate. Great interesting video, very sad story. Keep up the amazing videos. Big UP your a G
This series should be nominated to an award competition. And it should win it.
Fantastic job team, fantastic job.
Out of 83% who voted at the referendum for Croatian independence, 95% wanted out of Yugoslavia.... What the hell are you talking about...Yugoslavia was doomed from the start only iron fist of Tito held it together by brute force..
Exactly.
Hey RareEarth, thanks for a great channel! I totally agree with what you've said in this episode, but in the same time, paradoxically, I disagree. Even when telling only the truth the result can be misleading because some omissions... I will not tell you what omissions were... I will challenge you to find some Sarajevo videos before the war and compare to your video (hint: look at the people not architecture). Anyway congrats for a great job and keep going!
I went into this knowing I'd be wrong, and I appreciate the way you position it. :)
Sorin, there is a lot of Arab tourists in the last 5 years in Sarajevo.
Sad 😢. Thank you
thank you for this...
So much emotion in your voice, it was a really touching video.
Now I need to hug someone!
I celebrate your effort to create thoughtful videos with impartial analysis of historical events from the viewpoint of the forgotten people directly affected by them. We tend to look at history from a focus tainted by religious, political ideologies, or our own biases that makes us complicit in allowing the same vicious cycles to continue dividing us. It is unfortunate that filming a video will put your life in peril and appreciate your efforts to add to the human narrative!
the way you narrated it just like a poems ...
a beautiful poetry's about a sad lost love ...
This finale is full of rage. And sadness.
Years ago I read a book about this war. It left me shocked. Srebrenica was the worst.
Thank you for all the serie👏👏
Prijedor was far more vicious. Look it up
This is a fantastic series. More engaging and informative than any text or documentary I've seen. As a second-generation Yugoslavian immigrant, trying to understand the history and politics is pretty difficult with your common history book. Big thumbs up and thanks
Thank you. Lest we never forget.
As a child living 1500km away, this was in the news every day. It seeped into my mind. The stories, pictures and videos of the aftermath that surfaced will never leave me. Only recently have I come to the realisation of the full extent of this war that has haunted my childhood. I can only imagine the fear and horror from the other side of the little television we had at home.
Thank you for speaking about this.
This exact thing is happening in india right now... I'm scared
Don't worry, India's not going anywhere.
That video was perfect.
Every nationalist, anywhere, needs it played on loop to them, until they realise the ultimate destination of their ideology.
I like learning about and studying wars. My "favourites" are The conflict in SE Asia/Vietnam War, and the American Civil War. I study and read about others too, but nothing quite tears at my heart, and makes me despair like the Yugoslav War.
There is something about the shear senselessness and medieval brutality of that war, combined with the lethality and destructive power of modern day weapons, that makes it so much more disturbing than any other war, IMO.
Anyhow, real glad you didn't get shot, like. I remember you posting up on Twitter about getting robbed.
This series has been well worth your effort, though, I think.
Keep up the good work.
@@kostam.1113 No it wasn't. It was built during a war and against genocide and in the late 70s it was probably the best country to live in.
The SE Asian conflict (Indonesian here), include the regime of Soeharto are notoriously economical wrecker (although i can blaming his kids or i wil disappear), especially when the Cold War still ongoing. Lots of poverty, rejecting communism ideology, and the glory of the food is a myth, it only glorified the rice back then. Man, i can see that the Yugoslav are deadlier than what's wrong in my country since most of them including killing eachother's life.
There's no educating a nationalist. The only way to do it is to make it illegal and prevent any nationalist from ever becoming involved with governing societies.
One of your best episodes. No matter how much pain it had to reflect.
Ur so good hearted person I love ur all videos thank u keep it up
1:44 Is that baby-Hitler in the ads on the street?
Yes. It was a poster advertising a theater play.
The narrative of history is simultaneously more gorgeous and hellish than any work of fiction. The complete desecration of humanity I have graciously never experienced is terrifying beyond belief. May the Yugoslavs rest in peace. May the Bosnians rest in peace. May all those who have been stripped of their humanity and cast brutally cast into indiscriminate hell rest in peace.
This was chilling in a way a lot of documentaries on the same subject are not. Evan, you might think you should be unhappy with how this turned out, but I'm wiping away tears and that's not something I often do.
Hey Evan, not sure what you guys encountered but just wanted to say I root for you. Hope you're all safe and feeling better. Thank you for sharing your understandings of this Rare Earth.
Srebrenica genocide is one of the worst things that ever happened in Bosnia no doubt.Yet, as it always happens there was a cause for all that.See before that, Srebrenica was a town protected by UN forces.Similar to what Sarajevo was, which is the reason why Sarajevo was bombed and not taken by brute force.However these UN forces either deliberately or accidentaly weren't good at peacekeeping so Bosnians managed to consolidate a garrison and do raids in the surrounding villages which mainly consisted of Serb population.Notable example was the massacre of Kravice on January 7th 1993, where 49 Serbs were killed.Srebrenica genocide happened after 4 years (July 1995) of these raids that were organized by the Bosniak army in the safe zones secured by UN forces.So my point is in war there are no innocent sides.The victims may have their peace and may this never happen again.With that being said I am all for peaceful division of the respectfully ethnicities into seperate countries.Federation of Bosnia can have it's own state and everything that goes with it and Republic of Srpska also.Ironically, I know, the best way to stop the division of ethnicities is to divide them into separate nations.That's just my 2 cents.Greetings to all people who want to co-exist peacefully in the Balkans but don't strip other ethnicities their right of self-identification.Cheers for bringing the light on the diversity the Balkan region has and the issues that won't ever stop because of our close-mindness.
No act provides even a little justification for murdering civilians, up to and including the murder of civilians. You say no "sides" were innocent, but the vast majority of people living in any war zone are not on any side. They're just unfortunate enough to live there.
Bosnian civilians were fighting to survive, surrounded from all sides, living in enclaves and fighting for water and bread. You will see no footage of Bosnian soldier occupying Zagreb. You will see no footage of Bosnian soldier occupying Belgrade. You will see a lot of footage Serbs occupying Sarajevo. You will see a lot of footage Croats occupying Mostar.
I was a kid then, my home town Belgrade, Serbia wasn't directly afected by war and my parents tried not to talk about it, but I watched it all on tv. We lived a hard life under sanctions and whenever I saw shooting star I first wished to have chocolate or spmething like that, but I regreted it immediately for being so selfish, wish of all wishes was for war in Bosnia to end.
TY!!
This was so good.
They held the cultures and people together by force, not love. Some learned to love, but you can not force true love. Under the surface the hatred festered and boiled.
Until it blew up.
Just like modern Britain then..
Just like modern Britain then..
What hatred?
that is not true at all, that is a right wing nationalist talking point that all humans are inherently predisposed to be at each others throats, we were the same race of people same culture just different religion, people lived together happily and married, it was pieces of shit nationalists with their fear mongering and shit talking points like this that drove the divide further and helped stoke the tension
I was just a kid (I'm German) when all this happend and it gives me chills when I think about all of this. This happens in close neighborhood of the EU and took so long that we done something about this. There we're even hole cabinets falled (the netherlands) because we ddn't act fast enought.
Its such a shame that all this happend because politics was at play as allways.
Divide and conquer. Now we're just a bunch of colonies where German companies get cheap labour force
Love from India bud. I watch your old videos sometimes and wonder what path my country is heading. Maybe do a video on us someday?
Its heartbreaking, or should i say, heart-opening, thankyou brother
You sounded like you were on the verge of crying a few times through the video.
I'm Canadian, but I lived in a small town in New Zealand from 1992 until 1998, where I finished high school (in 1995). My high school's computing teacher there resigned in 1994, to travel to the Balkans, to teach UN support personnel how to use computers. I caught up with him a couple years later, after he'd returned to New Zealand. One of the things he said that's stuck with me the most is that running network cables was so easy, because every building was shot full of holes. I've retold this story, as an amusing anecdote, many times in the last 25 years, and... through no fault of Rare Earth's... now I want to puke, feeling like the full weight of that insensitivity has just landed on me at once.
This video made me unconfortable, but i had a feeling that's what it was supposed to do, good job
That video description.. Stay safe man. This episode made me a little sick :< With the thought of history repeating itself, we must do everything we can to stop such things from happening.
I fought in this war. And this man is making it out to be that we were friends, no, we weren't. We actually hated each other very, very badly.
Very deceitful. "We will sacrifice peace for a sovereign Bosnia" - muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic 26.1. 1992
This is the most pissed off I've seen you, yet .... and rightly so.
Damn good job on this, guys! Regards from Slovenia.
Amazing video