bosnia report
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Mostar: Europe's Failure

Herzeg-Lager

Partition and Perish

How the OSCE Reinterprets Dayton

Mostar - National Composition - 1991 Census

Mostar - Chronology

Mostar - in the Croat name

The Deconstruction of Bosnia

Mak Dizdar

An Ideological Ally for Belgrade

Peace in His Time: David Owen's Balkan Odyssey

End of the Road for Slobodan Milosevic?

Misrepresenting the War

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Issue 15 April-June 1996

Mak Dizdar
(from Kameni spavac)

Doci ces jednog dana na celu oklopnika
  sa sje vera
I srusiti do termelja moj grad
Blazen u sebi.
Veleci
unisten je on sad
I unistena je
nevjerna
njegova
vjera.

I cudit ces se potom kad cujes kako
ponovo koracam
tih po gradu
opet te zeleci
Da, upravo tako.


You'll come one day leading men in
  armour from the north
and destroy my city to its foundations
Feeling beatific.
Saying
'it is destroyed now
and destroyed too is
its infidel
faith.'

And then you'll be astonished to hear me
pacing anew
silently through the city
wanting you again.
Yes, just so.

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