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It's May 2, 1992.
Sarajevo was under siege.
in the capital of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina is prevented
each line of communication with the outside
will soon be missing: Gas.
Water.
Food. The electrical energy.
260 tanks, 120 mortars and other artillery pieces are located
around the city, mostly occupied
The other party won was plagued by bombings,
for an average of four thousand shells a day.
In the city, until then a multiethnic, the people began to divide.
Macedonias
Slovenes
Croats
Bosnias
Serbs
The main monuments civilians were bombed.
The National Library was bombed
on 25 August 1992
in exactly one hundred years after the laying of the first stone.
Pages of ancient manuscripts burned for hours fluttered above the city.
War is not a tenth only people,
but also kills the national memory built painstakingly over the centuries.
Today, where the shells hit Serbian citizens have made an art of witness,
which is based on the ruin and death of a country
An art non to forget