THROUGH A WINDOW. Sarajevo is covered with blood and desperation. A profesional army hounds the city without relief and applies a faultless recipe: syestematic bombing @BosnianHistory

WELCOME TO HELL An infernal siege formed by several military supply rings cannot be broken. The Sebian radicals get their deadly projectiles through a corridor which is kept intact outside the defenders positions @BosnianHistory

THE DESERTED AVENUE The great 7 km. avenue which links the airport to the city centre is today the world`most desertic one. It is ironically known as The Snipers Avenue @BosnianHistory

TEARS FOR A SOLDIER. One of them cries: "Murderers". Another one raises the blanket and tenderly caresses the soldier´s face. A third one writes the name on a cardboard for him to be identified by his family later on. They observe a minute of silence. @BosnianHistory

THE ACCURATE SHOT.The corpselies in the main Street, abandoned hours ago. Cars pass by a full speed. No ambulance has dared to go for him. They fear the snipers´shoot. The dog tags Will show his identity @BosnianHistory

THE EMBRACE A van arrives and a man with a manchine gun gets out. He escreams and cries for a stretcher for his badly injured brother. As a nwe projectile explodes he makes a move to shoot into the air. A fellow prevents him from doing so by embracking him.

DESPERATION. A few minutes later his brother has already died. The weapon and a couple of grenades give him the fierceness of a soldier. He sits at the hospital´s entrance and cries with grief with his face in his hands. @BosnianHistory @perezreverte @jordievole @alfarmada

THE BLOOD TRICKLE. Day is more dangerous tan night. The population trusts in the sudden stillness and goes out the buy the few things remaining in the markets. @BosnianHistory

MASS BURIALS. Cementeries are also a frequent target of the Serbian radicals´offensives, It is not even posible to bury the victims in peace. At eleven every morning the funeral ceremony starts. @BosnianHistory @slyon66 @EFM1959

ROWS OF GRAVE-STONES AND CROSSES Besiegers armed with heavy artillery. Besieged who defend themselves by whatever means necessary. Both of them still have the same positons they had in the first months of the war. Only the cementeries grow more and more. @BosnianHistory @slyon66

THE SERBIAN BURIAL. Projectiles do not ask about nationality religious belief. They explode and kill. Tenths of thousands of Serbians have resolved tos stay in the city and thet suffer the siege´s harshness with Bosnians, Muslims, Catholics, Jews and atheists @BosnianHistory

THE MILITIAN WOMAN. The munition and garrison of a cannon or a mortar about to shoot a projectile against the city can ben seen. The men faces are amused. Sometimes downhearted because of the cold,but seldom anguished. Conversations can even grow obscene @BosnianHistory @slyon66

THE TWISTED FACES. few seconds later,the projectile sent by those same men falls upon the middle of a Street or a weak entrenchment.Dreadful cries can be Heard, but executioners and their victims are kept apart by a large distance which prevents them from seeing the others´faces

A FAMILY TOMB. The five members of this family have died because of the explision of a grenade which entered house,including Mirza y Mirela,five and three years,
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SORROW. Doctors work with detachment. They are used to the arrival of dozens of people at the same time and do not lose their temper. Kosevo,Sarajevo´s main hospital,lacks running water and light supply and has extreme scarcity of emergency supplies @BosnianHistory @perezreverte

PRIORITY TARGET. Bombing is indiscriminate as in all wars, but here the civil population has become a priority tarjet. This way, the defenders´moral reserves are undermind @perezreverte @jordievole @slyon66 @alfarmada @ramonlobo @EFM1959 @javierbauluz @javierespinosa2

FORGOTTEN STUFF. The belongings of the dead and wounded are arranged in a cold hospital hall waiting for the relatives´arrival. If bombing is intense, several days Will pass by before the family collects the victim´s belongins @perezreverte @jordievole @slyon @EFM1959 @galtares

THE HARVEST OF TERROR Some 55.000 people have been injured. In this harvest of terror, the highest Price has been paid by those men,women and children who have suffered horrible amputations @perezreverte @jordievole @APampliega @DrSantacreu @ManelvBcn @galtares @slyon @campsoscar

A CRIMINAL EXPERIMENT. The one who first conceived the siege knew vey well the weaknesses of human mind. Projectiles kill but, further, they cause serious psychological disorders in survivors @slyon66 @galtares @alfarmada @APampliega @AntonioMaestre @atorrem @ramonlobo @EFM1959

A HOUSE OF CARDS. The criminal knows that the population defenses are more and more scarce every day. He knows he has at his mercy a house of cards formed by thousands of innocents. Just by by blowing, by making his mechanism of death roar, the house Will tumble down forever.

A TIME FOR SILENCE. Attempted suicides have multiplied five times since the beginning of the siege. The majority of the population has suffered a great strain bombing. 90% may suffer emotional shock because of the breakdown of their defense systems.

BORN IN BOSNIA. Somebody has writtenthis legend in a sad and gloomy vestibule. Many inhabitantes do no want to identify themselves with any religious or ethnic group. They feel themselves citizens above all. @perezreverte @jordievole @_anapastor_ @slyon66 @alfarmada @galtares

NALENA SKORUPAN. The Serbian radicals celebrate the sixth of January of 1994 with a intense bombing of the city. A grenade enters Nalena´s house, beheads her aunt anda causes wounds in her own face. Next day the two-month-old girl diez. @perezreverte @jordievole @galtares

GABRIELA MATZ She is an 84-year-old woman who feels as Bosnianas Croatian. Her genealogic tree is so rich that only Jewish ancestors are missing for it to be complte. She states: "We must live together. There is no other way. We cannot live in separate cells". @BosnianHistory

A GORAZDE REFUGEE.Thousands of Muslims flee from the villages the Serbian raducals occupy by fire and sword.The occupation gives way to the true policy of terror. The aim is to establish ethnically pure áreas,thus destroying the legacy of centuries of coexistence @BosnianHistory

HASIJA JUNIN. Rapid-fire gun shots wounded her in both legs on April 23 rd 1993.A few months later she goes out for the first time,taking advantage of a quiet, sunny morning @BosnianHistory @alfarmada @perezreverte @ManelvBcn @jordievole @galtares @G_Arriaga @atorrem @APampliega

NINAD RADONJA.A mortar grenade blew her legs off April 23 rd 1993 while he was on guard in a dangerous part of the city. At least 3.000 people have suffered amputations or are comdemned to a wheelchair for a life time. @BosnianHistory @JuanDiegoBotto @palzaga @majimeno @alfarmada

MARKO VESOVIC. At the beginning of the war. the besiegers called him by telephone, acused him of treason and threatened to bomb his house. According to him, "Bosnia is a Christ surrounded by two thieves-Serbia and Croatia- while Europe plays the part of Pilatos washing his hands

ABDULAH SIDRAN. Bosnian poet translated to several languages and autor of scripts such as "Daddy is on busisness trip",an Emir Kusturica film.He says: "Intelectuals are ashamed of their governments.The governements´gestures and symbolic, but their political power is non-existant"

BORISLAV HERAK. Accused of 32 murders, including 12 women he raped before killing them.This 22-year-old Serbian was indicted in Sarajevo onMarch 1993. It was the very first trial for war crimes with formal defendants,evidence and witnesses. @perezreverte @BosnianHistory @galtares

GOING OUT FROM THE SHELTER. Seven o´clock in the morning. The first inhabitants go out from their shelters. They cross the streets of a city in which finding a bulding without trace of this epic tragedy is looking for a needle in a haystack.

CARRYING WATER. Everyday thousands of people walk for hours in an often useless attempt to get wáter. They use wheelbarrows, shopping trolleys and rucksacks to cary the demijohns. @perezreverte @jordievole @galtares @Buenafuente @hectorabadf @MistralS @alfarmada @BosnianHistory

DYING IN THE QUEUE. Dozens of people die or get injured by snipers´shots while they stand in a queue.They wait for hours in open places by a small fountain from where a trickle of water comes out. @ManelvBcn @MistralS @Buenafuente @alfarmada @JuanDiegoBotto @norcoreano @galtares

QUEUES OF HUNGER. Children, Young people and above all the elderly take up positions everiday in the queue outside the International Red Cross building. They Will get the only hot food of the day. There are people who were always por and ladies in furs. @BosnianHistory @galtares

THE ONLY FOOD. Bombings, temperaturas down to 15 degrees below zero and long waits do not prevent thousands of starving citiziens from going out in search of food. The alternative is dying of hunger. @BosnianHistory @gervasanchez @Buenafuente @MistralS @alfarmada @galtares

BREAD. Humanitariam aid trickes in. The UN decides to close the airport every single time a plane or a Blue Helmet position is attacked. The inhabitants depend on bread, the only product which, though rationed,can be bought at its real price. @BosnianHistory @galtares @alfarmada

CUTTING ROOTS. Nortwithstandingthe continuous explosions, an aged man tries to cut the roots of what used to be a gigantic tree. The cold winters have forced the population to deforest the city. In second term are the olympic installations destrod by the bombings @BosnianHistory

DAILY ROUTINE. The old quarter of the city is attacked with rocktes. The walls of the houses fall down as if they were made of cardwood. A woman leaves her home nwith a case containing the few things she has managed to sabe @BosnianHistory @slyon66 @EFM1959 @perezreverte

HIGH CALIBRE. Each projectile sent by Bosnian defenders is answered with twenty Serbian ones, usually of higher calibre and destructive capacity. @BosnianHistory @ManelvBcn @Berto_Romero @julia_otero @atorrem @Acardalon @blecumberri @jltrasobares @JuanDiegoBotto @juanes @slyon66

TO START ALL OVER AGAIN. Every night´s routine is to listen to the whistles and explosions of the projectiles. Every morning´routine is to forbearingly gather the pieces of glass,to pile up debris,to start all over again. @BosnianHistory @galtares @carnecrudaradio @JuanDiegoBotto

HOURS. As any other profesional activity, was is also scheduled by timetables. There is a time to rest, to eat, to love, to shoot. An alarma-clock does not buzz for the soldier to shoot his weapon, but there are times of extreme violence followed by others of confusing stillness.

BEWARE,SNIPERS. At the beginning of the siege, the projectiles sent by cannons and mortars made for 90% of the victims. Afterwards, snipers have become the main psychological terror. The most dangerous crossings are signalled with grafftis as this one. @BosnianHistory @galtares

TO WAIT, TO SHOOT. Armed with automatic rifles with telescopic viewers, they control countless Street-crossings from the hills. Nobody, no matter how quick, can Dodge six shots a second. @BosnianHistory @galtares @carnecrudaradio @ManelvBcn @Buenafuente @MistralS @alfarmada

PROTECTIVE BARRICADES. Serbian snipers find it more difficult since the most dangerous crossings are protected by huge containers used as protective barricades. The city reminds of the alreday divided Berlin of the early sixties @BosnianHistory @MistralS @juanes @APampliega

SURREALIST LANDSCAPE. A destroyed car protects the entrance of the always active snipers ´home. The landlady has already hung the wash and is getting ready to make some coffee. @BosnianHistory @galtares @AbadColorado @Fgarea @AntonioMaestre @APampliega @alonsay @_anapastor_

PARKED CARS. Thousands of cars have been destroyed during the bloody siege. Rows of cars are parked heading to the curb as in any district of a big city. @slyon66 @EFM1959 @ManelvBcn @jcrius @CarlosDada @galtares @G_Arriaga @PedroCuartango @AntonioMaestre @ARubioCampana @alonsay

Other cars act as barricades for hindering the bullets´way. @BosnianHistory @ManelvBcn @EricHauck @slyon66 @EFM1959 @MistralS @Buenafuente @monicabernabe1 @atorrem @galtares @montxoarmendari

DAILY GOLGOTHA. 380.000 people live trapped. Prices at the market are imposible for those without economic resources, that is, the vast majority of the population. An egg cost two euros, a kilo of potatoes, eight, a kilo of meat, thirty euros. @Marodriguez1971 @BosnianHistory

DAUNGEROUS CORNER. The most hidden corner can be the most dangerous one. Grenades and snipers shots do not follow a logical trajectory. Some people have saved their lives by walking in the middle of the Street. Others have died in spite of having sheltered in a vestibule.

STREET RAMBLING. Children ramble among rubble and ruins. The fight their own battles, which though less deadly are no less violent. You find them everywhere, some of them in a military costume with wooden rifles. @BosnianHistory @ManelvBcn @EricHauck @slyon66 @EFM1959 @atorrem

CHILDREN WITHOUT CHILDHOOD. They quietly play a few meters away from the most dangerous crossings, and do not tremble with the explosions anymore. 1.500 children have died and other 15.000 have been wounded in Sarajevo since the beginning of the siege. @jordievole @galtares

MIMING THE ADULTS. Living in a concentration camp as this one is causing a disorder in many childrens´s behaviour. hey mime the adults, showing themselves as heroes during bombings. @ManelvBcn @galtares @sindolafuente @ARubioCampana @AneIrazabal @BosnianHistory @atorrem @slyon66