The 4 minerettes on the mosque in Sanski Most.
Cemetery where the people from Vahidin's village rest.
Written on a plaque at the entrance to the cemetery.
Islamic scripture.
After the cemetery, Vahidin brought us to a cave where people hid during WWI and WWII. However, this was the first place the Serbs looked when the war started so the Bosniaks could not use it as a hiding place.
Gorgeous view from the cave.
Vahidin and his wife invited us to his home for a farewell dinner. These are his roosters.
View from Vahidin's porch.
Paula Green, a professor for the graduate school at the School for International Training, came and spoke to us in Banja Luka. It was truly a rare treat since it has been eight years since her last visit to Bosnia. She seems like such an amazing woman and her work is truly inspiring. She helped teach conflict transformation and nonviolence in Hutu refugee camps in Uganda. In addition, she helped establish dialogue between Serbian and Bosnian women in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Here are some of the wise words that she left us with:
"It is so easy to be angry and so easy to judge...and we have to guard against that. People are pushed to do things in their lives that they wouldn't normally do. They are also the victims... There are no winners in war."
"The only way through healing is through the tunnel of acknowledgement. Bosnia has not done that yet."
"It is so easy to be angry and so easy to judge...and we have to guard against that. People are pushed to do things in their lives that they wouldn't normally do. They are also the victims... There are no winners in war."
"The only way through healing is through the tunnel of acknowledgement. Bosnia has not done that yet."
The graffiti vulture for the Serbs is comparable to the swastika to the Germans.
The view from our cafe where our waiter shared with us his hate for US politics because of the bombs they dropped on Sarajevo. Our time in Banja Luka was very telling as we discovered the true extent to which so many Serbs do not want to acknowledge their own actions against the Bosniaks. While I understand that the Bosniaks did commit atrocities against civilians in Sarajevo, the number of atrocities committed against the Bosniaks were far more numerous. When we visited the University of Banja Luka, the students there said that the negative image of the Serbians is a result of media propaganda around the world.
As of now, I have left Banja Luka. I am officially in Sarajevo. I will try to post photographs from Sarajevo as soon as I can!
Do sljedeceg puta.
You drank Turkish tea? How did u find it? I heard that there is quite big Turkish community in Sarajevo is that true so far??
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