On
March 1
, there was a wedding and a murder.
Sarajevo Wedding Attack
April 1
, there was a secret invasion.
Arkan's Tigers
April 5
, there was genocide.
Sarajevo Siege
For years, Bosnia drowned in blood and tears as Serb forces ravaged our land, razed our homes to the ground, and forced us into concentration camps, servitude, and hiding. The ethnic cleansing resulted in tens of thousands of deaths of innocent civilians and the displacement of several million people from their homes. From the siege of Sarajevo to the Srebrenica Massacre (the second greatest loss of life on European soil since WW2), the world watched as
they
laid waste to everything we knew, but in the ashes of their hate we found the strength to survive in the place we once called home!