March 1996 – Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hertzogovina – An elderly Serb woman goes for a walk as the suburb she lives in is set fire by Serb Nationalists angered that the territory is about to revert to Bosnian government control. PHOTO CREDIT : Kit R. Roane
February 1996 – Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hertzogovina – Charred sculpture of a "fuck you" symbol is all that remains of a building looted by Serb Nationalists in Grbavica, one of the Sarajevo suburbs about to revert to Bosnian government control. PHOTO CREDIT : Kit R. Roane
March 1996 – Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hertzogovina – Serbs occupied the house of a Muslim family during the war. When the territory the house occupied reverted back to Bosnian control, the Serbs took everything from it except for this photograph of the previous (Muslim) tenants, which they left after scratching out their faces. PHOTO CREDIT : Kit R. Roane
March 1996 - Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzogovina - An elderly man watches his apartment burn in the increasingly violent and lawless Serb-controlled suburb of Grbavica, days before the suburb is set to be handed over to Muslim-Croat rule as part of the Dayton peace accord. Serb paramilitaries roamed the Sarajevo suburbs for weeks, moving stealthily through sniper shields and tightly-packed apartment complexes, setting fires and beating or threatening Serbs who planned to stay following the turnover to the Muslim-Croat federation. PHOTO CREDIT: Kit R. Roane
February 1996 - Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzogovina - Vacating Serb left this warning -- With Muslims never and nevermore -- on a wall of an apartment building in Ilidza as they vacated in preparation for the suburb's handover to the Muslim-Croat Federation as part of the Dayton peace Accord. In the previous weeks, paramilitary groups roamed the increasingly violent and lawless Serb-controlled suburbs, moving stealthily through sniper shields and tightly-packed apartment complexes, setting fires and beating or threatening Serbs who planned to stay following the turnover to the Muslim-Croat Federation. PHOTO CREDIT: Kit R. Roane
March 1996 - Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzogovina - Armed Italian IFOR troops search Serb paramilitary members following a fire bombing in the increasingly violent and lawless Serb-controlled suburb of Grbavica, days before the suburb is set to be handed over to Muslim-Croat rule as part of the Dayton peace accord. Serb paramilitaries roamed the Sarajevo suburbs for weeks, moving stealthily through sniper shields and tightly-packed apartment complexes, setting fires and beating or threatening Serbs who planned to stay following the turnover to the Muslim-Croat federation. PHOTO CREDIT: Kit R. Roane
