General information

Call No.:

350-1-1:39/5

Part of series

HU OSA 350-1-1 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Europe: Balkan Archive

Located at

VHS PAL #39 / No. 5

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00000039

Original Title

Sarajewo im Würgegriff

Date of air

1992-04-21

Date

1992

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

German

Notes

Destruction Civilian Property • Military/Para-Military • Refugee/Ex-Pow ID

Content

Form/Genre

Television program

Contents Summary

This broadcast focuses on problems and dilemmas faced by Sarajevo as a besieged city. The report shows empty grocery stores and how the general infrastructure has collapsed. Frustration with Europe and the U.S. is apparent in interviews with civilians, soldiers, and businessmen. The report states that Bosnians were the strongest believer in multi-ethnic cooperation, and therefore the war comes to them as a nightmare. The report gives an example of a Sarajevo building whose inhabitants decided to create a multi-ethnic self-defense system. A young Serbian man talks about the ethnically mixed makeup of the tenants. Two ethnically unidentified men exclaim that it is the war that made them aware of their neighbors' ethnicity. They consider the three ethnicities to be all the same people. An older Muslim refugee woman gives an account of having her home destroyed by the army. Interviewed is also Bozidar Matic, president of Energoinvest, the largest Bosnian company. He talks about the general disbelief that U.S./EU mediation between the three parties (Serbs, Croats, and Muslims) will bring about any solutions. Ejup Ganic, member of the Bosnian parliament., states that under the leadership of Milosevic, Serbia has managed to destroy the dream of Yugoslav unity by wanting too much control. Other footage includes: Bosnian soldiers trying to recapture a building in Sarajevo, pictures of Sarajevo's old town [Bascarsija], refugees cramped into a school watched by Bosnian forces, people waiting in line to get food supplies, empty Sarajevo grocery stores, and Energoinvest.

Context

Associated Names

ORF (Copyright holder, Producer)