'Is it possible not to be involved when you are observing human suffering?’
A friendly holiday football game ended in bloodshed June 1, 1993 was a balmy day in Sarajevo. After months of living in fear of attacks from Bosniak Serbs, locals decided to host a small football game to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha in the suburb of Dobrinja. The West had been watching the siege of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina for months – the small city, surrounded by four mountains, had hosted the Winter Olympic Games only nine years earlier.
uk: ‘At the time, it was shocking because it was perhaps the first war that was almost live broadcast on western media in which the West did not have a side. ‘This was presenting the suffering of people to people as observers, who were not involved in the conflict.
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