Exiled in Sarajevo
by Tahir Cambis & Alma Šabaz
The following are excerpts
from the CNN Impact special Exiled
in Sarajevo. This special was produced by Tahir Cambis and Alma
Šabaz. It is copyrighted by Exile Productions 1997. I claim
no rights to it. I am in no way affiliated with CNN, Tahir Cambis,
Alma Šabaz, or Duško Tomic. It can be ordered by calling 1-800-201-8844.
I do not benefit in any way from any orders that are made. Now that
that's cleared up.................................................................................................
Sarajevo is made up of 40 nations
including 60,000 anti-fascist Serbs.
"A couple of nights ago I was a guest on Paris radio.
It was the first time I ever called myself a Serb. The very first
time. And I said 'this is a Serb talking to you from Sarajevo who
is ashamed to belong to the human race because I saw pieces of brain and
bodies on the market walls. A Serb who is ashamed of the beasts from
his nation, my nation.' And I said 'That wasn't done by Great Serbs.
That was done by great war criminals. Nikola Tesla was a Great Serb
who brought good to the whole world. Radovan Karadzic, the great
war criminal, brought horror to the world." -- Duško Tomic
Not to Hate
For you born tomorrow, it's important to know
that they used the living for target practice
and the streets bore signs saying "beware, snipers."
Here birds died on the graves of children
which they shelled as though to kill them once more.
It's important to know all this, but not to hate.
For you born tomorrow, it's important to know
that all this happened and the end of the 20th century
in the heart of Europe,
which salved its conscience by sending us spoiled
food.
For you born tomorrow, it's important to know
that here they wanted to kill everything...
a child, a bird, the air, the water, the trees,
the very belief in life.
It's important to know all this, but not to hate.
Duško Tomic
"When Serbian rape camps were discovered by journalists,
the U.N. claimed helping captive Muslim women was not part of their mandate.
The U.N. also declined to investigate repeated charges that its soldiers
had been taken to the camps for sex."
Anthony Lewis -- The Black Book of Bosnia
"Bosnia the idea, where a person's differing religion or
culture is a chance to learn rather than a reason to kill will still be
alive somewhere. But will Europe be here?"
Tahir Cambis