🌻Remember the cellist of Sarajevo? Or should I say, do you remember Sarajevo?

[Hekate]

Vedran Smailovic took his cello to the killing streets day after day. In 1999 Tommy Sands, the great song man from Northern Ireland, created an album with him called From Sarajevo to Belfast, and I keep thinking of it…. This is Ode to Sarajevo.

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[electric_blue68]

1. Yes I do ...

The Bosnian War was the first war I followed on NPR. 😔

[Samrob]

2. When I think about and remember Sarajevo and Belfast my mind also thinks WJC.

In 1995 in central Europe, Bosnian Serbs had begun wiping out the largely Muslim population in their own country. That July, violence reached a climax when Bosnian Serb soldiers overran the city of Srebrenica and murdered more than 8,000 defenseless men and boys. "That was a real shock for everyone," says Kofi Annan, U.N. Secretary-General. "And for that to happen in Europe, many decades after World War II, was something that nobody could sit back and swallow." In response, President Clinton initiated Operation Deliberate Force, a massive NATO military response. "He didn't blink," National Security Coordinator Richard Clarke said. "We knew that day that we had a commander-in-chief who was rational and comfortable with the use of force." As relevant today concerning Ukraine as then concerning Bosnia.

[Hekate]

3. If you want to look up more by Tommy Sands, specify Irish. He's an important peacemaker there...

… and his music is excellent, but I never heard of him until I actually visited Ireland. Even looking up this album by name, the first google hit was our American pop singer.

[Hekate]

4. KnR