How this City Survived Four Years of Siege 🇧🇦
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- The Siege of Sarajevo, which began in April, 1992 would last almost 4 years, leaving over 11,000 residents of the city dead and even more wounded. During these four years, it was almost impossible to get food, supplies, weapons and people in and out of the city to the free Bosnian territory, and so a tunnel was dug under the Sarajevo airport. This tunnel would end up saving the lives of countless people.
0:00 Historical Background
3:00 Exploring East Sarajevo
14:00 The Tunnel + Interview With a Local
25:41 CHANNEL UPDATE
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Jelen Beer, at least it rhymes in English Deer Beer....LOL
Lol, this is one of the best comments I’ve ever received
There was Yugoslavian in-depth study in 1984. in which 50 most known (serb) officers analysed for 3 years - How long can single city withstand siege? and by some "coincidence" chosen city was Sarajevo... They took in consideration everything from : water sources, electricity, gas, food supplies, road infrastructure etc., and they stated that Sarajevo can withstand 75 days of siege. Despite that, Sarajevo survived 1425 days and all Bosnians still managed to start defence with improvised weaponry and defend (despite embargo) against 4th strongest Yugoslavian (proserbian) army in Europe.
Small correction: there was no Army of the Federation of BH, it was just called Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina(in whole, by todays (same) borders). The terms federation and republika only exist after the war
Yes that's right, thanks for the correction
Your videos are so interesting and no shade on anyone but so much more intelligent and thorough than the top 10 tourist schlock that seems to be impossible to escape. Great and impressive work, man.
Thanks, I appreciate the comment 🙏 Cheers!
You healed my broken heart ❤
4:00 the word 'East' in this context represents the orientation of Serbs as an ethnic and cultural group. They identify themselves to the East the same way Russians do. For a very brief period in time, during the war, the part of Sarajevo they conquered was renamed to "Serb Sarajevo" but it was outlawed after the war because that name was glorifying the ethnic cleansing of non-Serbs from this place. The same thing happened to a bunch of other towns around Bosnia, where Serbs tried to erase Bosnian identity and renamed towns with a "Serb" prefix. The OHR removed those names from the cities in an effort to deny glorification of ethnic cleansing after the war. So, the closest thing to that prefix they had was the word "East" which represents their religious and cultural orientation.
That makes a lot more sense, thanks for this comment
Thank you for sharing this video.
Dobrinja I was my childhood neighborhood me and my brother was living there form 1983-1992. Left Bosnia during war...
07:24 to your right side was frontline durind war and to the left side was my school
07:41 to your right side is my childhood street Miroslava Krleže ...😀 my mother still living there
Thanks for watching, pozdrav!
Those vans are people that you can sell old metal to, like old washing machines and such
the editing in this video is excellent! you are documenting an important part of history and I can only commend you for that. good job
Thank you :)
Great Video!
Merci mon gars
great video idea excited to watch
Yo, came across your channel randomly and I have seen a couple of your videos now soIi just have to give you props for speaking the language so well for being a foreigner. Would be nice to hear a little bit about your background.
You should visit Jajce in the summer btw, beautiful little town in central Bosnia.
Hvala! The short version of my background: born & raised in Utica, NY in the US, my family’s been in the US for generations. Utica has thousands of Bosnians so that’s how I became interested in the culture and language. I want to make a video soon explaining a bit about me and the story of how I learned the language & started traveling in the Balkans. Pozdrav!
Great vid mate. Visited the tunnel in 2023 and its a must see thing in Sarajevo. One thing i want to say is that there wasnt an Army of The Federation of Bosnia,its was the Army of Bosnia and Hercegovina
Yes good point, I didn’t realize the mistake until after I posted the vid:/ the “federation” didn’t exist until Dayton. Cheers!
@@BenTheRules hope u have a nice time in my country :) cheers m8
great video
great storytelling and video! keep up the good work !
alif shukran :)
Great video. Seems like you’ll be heading to the krajina region soon? I went to that ww2 memorial in Mrakovica last summer. Let me know if you need some suggestions on places to check out.
I want to start exploring some of the more famous spomeniks, yes. Someday i'd also like to do a tour of the whole Krajina (both on the bosnian side and the croatian side)
3:28 shows the municipality of Sokolac in the map, and it is a part of the City of East Sarajevo (if we can call it a city, tbh), but before the war, that municipality was not a part of the pre-war City of Sarajevo. It was just an independent municipality next to the City of Sarajevo. It was incorporated into the City of East Sarajevo between 1996 and 1999.
Very nice
Excited to see your trip back and hopefully you go to Bihac 😉
I really want to go to Bihac soon, i know some people who study there, so we'll see
Thanks for this. Now I see that I was blind thinking people are making it up (talking about the differences, not the tunnels and the history).
I went through it, i was 7 years old, august of 1994 and went to Croatia and then to North Africa
I am from the suburbs of Sarajevo and it is indescribable to say what this city survived from the Chetnik terror.
My family members were part of the defenders of the city in the ranks of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and through their experiences I can only say that the war in Bosnia was certainly the worst war that happened in modern times.
A large number of Serbs who were pre-war residents of Sarajevo did not want to join the aggressor Serbian army, but joined the defenders of the city in the ranks of the Army.
And yes, before the war, Lukavica was an ordinary village next to Sarajevo, after the war, when that area was attached to the Republika Srpska, the Serbian government invested huge money to make that part an urban zone so that they could declare it a city out of sheer revolt.
Serbs are still suffering to this day because Sarajevo defended itself and because Bosniaks make up 90% of the population in that city today.
Serbs aren’t suffering anymore? Nor do Croats and bosniaks, the war is over.
The shop around 4:30 says Avdic…
That’s wild do you think it’s……. ????
Go to Zlatibor Serbia
Regarding the beer. Indeed the Federation and the Republika Srpska have different beer brands: A few months ago I made the mistake to task for Niksicko beer (a Montenegrin beer) in a café in central Sarajevo. In the Republika Srpska you will find it regularly, here the waiter gave a mini lecture of the downfall of Yugoslavia etc.
you are officially the number 1 foreigner at pronouncing "Hercegovina"
Visit central-western Bosnia. We got fucken wild horses!!!
Planning on heading that way this summer :) pozdrav!
and of course Bosnia and Herzegovina is a sovereign and independent state with its own borders and the entities were created after the war and they are only part of the state and there is no border between the entities and they are only parts of the state and Bosnia is a medieval state and the oldest state in Europe
Van od collecting scrap metal
Ahhhh okay that makes sense hahaha, I’m always so confused by it
@@BenTheRules Have a Safe trip
According to the Law on Ministries and Other Administrative Bodies, Bosnia and Herzegovina has nine ministries, namely:
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
- Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations,
- Ministry of Civil Affairs,
- Ministry of Finance and Treasury,
- Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees,
- Ministry of Justice,
- Ministry of Communications and Transport,
- Ministry of Security,
- Ministry of Defense.
The Presidency of BiH appoints the President of the Council of Ministers, who takes office after the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH confirms his appointment. The President proposes the names of candidates for ministers, and the House of Representatives appoints them.
Judiciary
The judiciary in Bosnia and Herzegovina consists of:
Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Fair enough, but the entities also have a very high level of autonomy. Separate judiciary, separate laws. They have more autonomy from each other than say, states in the US
but anyway, thank you for visiting Bosnia and Herzegovina and showing the rest of the world that there is no more war and that it is a safe place to visit
but anyway, thank you for visiting Bosnia and Herzegovina and showing the rest of the world that there is no more war and that it is a safe place to visit
Kakve su cijene u east sarajevo
Je li jeftinije od čaršije
Iskreno ne znam nisam kupio ništa
Yes, they are.
Brate, vrati se i u Hrvatsku.
I may or may not be there very soon!
At tunel you got ticket for locals 😂😂, probably cuz you spoke bosnian 😂😂
And there is also unique ID cards,passports,money, flag, plates of cars, and etc.
educated yourself before making videos clips about any country. Thank you
Yes you make good points. As I said to another commenter, I didn’t mean to imply that they are or should be two separate countries. I only wanted to point out the several distinct differences that appear as soon as the ‘border’ (I don’t mean border as in international border, but like the border of two states in the US). E.g. more Cyrillic, buses to Belgrade, orthodox churches, Serbian beers, Serbian flags, etc.
but anyway, thank you for visiting Bosnia and Herzegovina and showing the rest of the world that there is no more war and that it is a safe place to visit
lol its spelled munitions not municians
a couple other spelling errors too but a great video regardless!
Lol thanks for pointing that out, you can tell I didn’t study English at university hahaha
Really? The guy speaks 1258652 languages and you're complaining about a spelling error?
municians
@@libertas5005 I'm giving him what he wants... Engagement on his video. This man doesnt make mistakes by accident.
Is awesome to hear how the local bosniak guy referes all the Serbs as Chetniks.The Bosnian-Croatian SS Nazi division was established in Bosnia, made of Bosnian muslims, Croats and Albanians, named Khanjar division. Just saying that it is not smart to call the whole nation by the WW2 military reference, as than the same behavior can be applied back. Not smart 🎉
This comment just makes you sound like a butt hurt serbian nationalist, you and I both know that Serbia has comitted counless warcrimes against bosniak citizens...
Of course it's not right to call all serbs chetniks, but writing a hatefull comment saying that guy is "not smart" and bringing up a random nazi division established in Bosnia just makes you look like a hatefull chetnik looking for exuses for all the war crimes Serbia has done...
Your Propaganda only fuels your ego and achives nothing meaningful
Lol milane nemoj plakati
First, the cab driver didn t revere to all serbs as četniks, he revered to the vrs as četniks when he talked about who controlled the area around the airport, which is accurate because the vrs was driven by četnik ideology😮
Second, i belive you mean the 13th waffen ss divison handschar and idk what your point is? They were recruited by the nazis like many other waffen ss divisons around europe, nothing special.
As if you don't call all Bosnians "Balije"... give me a break and stfu