What strikes me about Goražde '95 isn't just the horror. It's the defiance. Even as the noose tightened, they built a hospital underground. They printed their own currency. They refused to leave.
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🕊️ Remembering the defenders and civilians who endured 1,370 days of siege. 🇧🇦 gorazde 1995
I’ve stared at the photos from that summer—men with rifles older than their fathers, women lining up for water under sniper fire. The UN called Goražde a "Safe Area." But there is no safety in a cauldron.
While Srebrenica fell, Goražde fought. Surrounded, shelled, and starved—this Drina River city survived the worst of the Bosnian War. What strikes me about Goražde '95 isn't just the horror
When the world finally sent planes (not troops, just planes), the Serb tanks pulled back. Goražde breathed.
We talk about the wars of the 1990s as a tragedy of inaction. Goražde is the exception that proves the rule: They printed their own currency
July 1995. The hills around Goražde were on fire.
Goražde 1995: The Safe Area That Survived
Goražde, summer '95 – a masterclass in survival against all odds.