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balkan-thug: balkan-thug: The Siege Of Sarajevo Started from...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:40:21 -0400

balkan-thug:

The Siege Of Sarajevo Started from 6th April 1992 to 29th February 1996.

The siege of Sarajevo, as it came to be popularly known, was an episode of such notoriety in the conflict in the former Yugoslavia that one must go back to World War II to find a parallel in European history. Not since then had a professional army conducted a campaign of unrelenting violence against the inhabitants of a European city so as to reduce them to a state of medieval deprivation in which they were in constant fear of death. In the period covered in this Indictment, there was nowhere safe for a Sarajevan, not at home, at school, in a hospital, from deliberate attack.

Atrocities: Siege Stats/Totals Lasted 1,425 days 10,000+ killed Including 1,500+ children 56,000+ wounded 15,000+ children Late 1992, early 1993 height of the siege. Average of 329 shells per day July 22, 1993 is estimated to be heaviest day, 3,777 shells. Almost every building damages in some way Pre-war population: 650,000 Day of Cease Fire: approx 220,000, only 65% of pre-war size. (Read more here)

1. 22 April 1996: A boy plays on a tank in the Sarajevo neighbourhood of Grbavica

2. 6 April 1992: A Bosnian special forces soldier returns fire in downtown Sarajevo as he and civilians are shot at by Serbian snipers

3. 26 November 1992: A man ducks for cover as a cyclist races across a bridge in Dobrinja, a southwestern suburb of Sarajevo. On the right, sand bags have been set up to block the view of snipers who regularly shoot at people crossing the bridge.

4. 16 February 1993: Refugees from all parts of Bosnia scavenge for food in the Sarajevo dump, after the Bosnian government declared a boycott of food aid to Sarajevo until aid reached eastern Bosnia

5. 12 March 1996: A group of Bosnian men who have been refugees for four years return to their homes in the destroyed part of Ilidzia, a formar Serb-held suburb of Sarajevo

6. 29 February 1996: Muslim-Croat federation police officers look at the local map before going on patrol in the Sarajevo suburb of Ilijas, after they took control from the Bosnian Serbs. The Bosnian Federation government declared that the siege of Sarajevo was over on 29 February 1996. (See all pictures from above here)

Approximately 11.541 innocent people (including) children were murdered during the siege of Sarajevo. May their innocent souls rest in peace & may their precious lives never be forgotten.

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Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:37:19 -0400

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fotojournalismus: International Roma Day // April 8,...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 01:46:11 -0400

fotojournalismus:

International Roma Day // April 8, 2013

International Roma Day is an opportunity to celebrate Romani culture but also to highlight the persecution and discrimination that Roma people face in all areas of life.

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1. A woman holds a sign during a protest against Romani evictions in front of the European Union Parliament to mark International Roma Day in Brussels on April 8, 2013. (REUTERS/Francois Lenoir)

2. A Roma child loads recycled items on his bicycle in Pristina on April 8, 2013. (AFP/Armend Nimani)

3. A Roma woman and her baby are seen though the window of their caravan at a camp in Strasbourg on April 8, 2013. (REUTERS/Vincent Kessler)

4. A teenage girl fixes her hair near hanging laundry in Indre, near Nantes, western France on July 30, 2010. (REUTERS/Stephane Mahe)

5. Roma children wear masks during activities marking the International Roma Day in Pristina on April 8, 2013. (AFP/Armend Nimani)

6. Ioan Plesa, a Roma man, carries a bundle of twigs he collected to make brooms in Prislop village, 300 km northwest of Bucharest on September 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Radu Sigheti)

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I smell the day on your skin peach tinted cashmere infinity

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:38:00 -0400

I smell the day on your skin

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Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:54:11 -0500

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Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:53:18 -0500

thepoliticalnotebook: Fine art in Damascus… Digital artist...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:51:11 -0500

thepoliticalnotebook:

Fine art in Damascus… Digital artist Tammam Azzam created this work, superimposing Gustav Klimt’s famous painting “The Kiss” over a bullet-riddled building façade in Damascus. (This is not an actual mural there.)

According to the artist:

I want to discuss how the whole world could be interested in art and on the other hand two hundred people are killed every day in Syria. Goya created a work to immortalize [the] killing of hundreds of innocent Spanish citizens on May 3, 1808. How many May 3rds do we have in Syria today?

The other two images are similar works of Azzam’s… using Matisse’s “La Danse” and Gauguin’s “Tahitian Women on the Beach” on top of similar scenes from Syria.

Via The Huffington Post. (HT @sultanalqassemi)

allthingseurope: Zagreb, Croatia (by Danijel Gvozden)

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:48:33 -0500

allthingseurope:

Zagreb, Croatia (by Danijel Gvozden)

meeresstille: by Joshua Bronaugh

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:52:25 -0500

meeresstille:

by Joshua Bronaugh

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allthingseurope: Hvar, Croatia (by Grandangolo)

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 07:35:20 -0500

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Hvar, Croatia (by Grandangolo)

"And there’s a lot to be angry about [nowadays]… But I don’t think that people know what to be angry..."

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:42:40 -0500

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And there’s a lot to be angry about [nowadays]… But I don’t think that people know what to be angry about. What has been created by this half-century of massive corporate propaganda is what’s called ‘anti-politics.’ So, anything that goes wrong, you blame the government. Well there’s plenty to blame the government about, but the government is the one institution that people can change and effect by participation without institutional change. That’s exactly why all the anger and fear is directed against the government. It has a defect: it’s potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect, they are pure tyrannies, so you want to keep them invisible and focus all anger on the government…

The government is exactly what Dewey described it as, the ‘shadow cast by business over society.’ If you want to change something, change the substance, not the shadow.

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- Noam Chomsky, “Class War: The Attack on Working People”

Let’s set the focus back on the ones really responsible for the problem. Change the substance and #OCCUPYWALLSTREET September 17th!

(via occupywallstreet)

sosuperawesome: Extreme close-ups of human eyes by Suren...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:43:55 -0500

sosuperawesome:

Extreme close-ups of human eyes by Suren Manvelyan

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danceswithfaeriesunderthemooon: golden-zephyr: daraco: Gypsies...

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 10:48:23 -0400

danceswithfaeriesunderthemooon:

golden-zephyr:

daraco:

Gypsies robbing European Ladies by lord marmalade on Flickr.

Europeans - stereotyping and demeaning cultures since 1800*

(* or since like, 5ever)

.. this picture is also in the morocco tag?