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From notes@igc.org Wed Aug 21 16:11:30 1996 Received: from igc7.igc.org (192.82.108.35) by MediaFilter.org with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.0); Wed, 21 Aug 1996 16:11:31 -0500 Received: from cdp.igc.apc.org (cdp.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.1]) by igc7.igc.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA07696; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 12:51:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: 21 Aug 1996 12:49:08 Reply-To: Conference "zamir.chat"From: gensemer@main.phys.uconn.edu Subject: http://mediafilter.org/SJ/Pages/Mostar, genocide, photography To: Recipients of zamir-chat-l Message-ID: <1371479663-342665@mediafilter.org> X-Gateway: conf2mail@igc.apc.org Errors-To: owner-zamir-chat-l@igc.apc.org Precedence: bulk Lines: 70 Hello everyone. I was in Mostar just four days ago, unfortunately only for one day, and couldn't get a bus to Sarajeveo. What I saw there at once made me cry to see the cruelty of a genocidal war, and smile with joy at the way I saw people working together in such cooperation to rebuild their beautiful city. I watched with anger as dozens of destroyed villages flew by the train window between Split and Zagreb. I shot 8 rolls of film and I am working on putting together a kind of book on my own experience, to share with other Americans. I only wish I wasn't limited to English, as I only found a few people who could talk with me at length. I plan to come back in the future because I found Bosnia to be a stunningly beautiful place, and one where perhaps freedom in the end will have triumphed over fascism - although the price for freedom is many lives. I hope that foreign troops - Croation, Serbian, UN - leave Bosnia soon. It angered me to see soldiers who have carved up your country hanging out in cafes flirting with the waitresses while a hundred meters away a family is pulling bricks out of the basement of their old house. I will try to use the pictures I took to communicate to students at my university something of the reality of Bosnia, and how blind nationalism can lead to such destruction. Well anyway I thought you might like to know that there are at least a few Americans who aren't afraid to go to Bosnia now, and hopefully more will follow in my footsteps. I hope to return and do some volunteer work in the future so that I may come to know Bosnia better. La Lutta Continua. Steve Gensemer U-46 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06268 USA gensemer@main.phys.uconn.edu