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this is systemic violent that needs to be addressed at its core. we are in a race against the barrier and no one said, we are all saying we're looking at the world as it is right now. not the world. we like it to be. the devil is always going to be in the details. the bottom line, when i was just there on the holiday, the war herself was our house. people were shot dead on the entrance. the hotel i do remember time in hotels was a shelter and started burning in your stella i had turned to the camera man, i said look, let's get out of here. how have this place continued to function? getting 3 and

a half years have stage again was the best to tell the people of the world what was happening in the i, i me oh sorry, a city of love art and music. ready but on the banks of the many at sky river, the lifeline of bosnia herzegovina history has also been carved in the heart of the balkan. this place has given birth to civilizations, and people,

and witness was that of shaped europe. but this historic city where races, religions and ethnic cities have molded together was torn apart in 1992 by a bloody. it lasted for 3 and a half years and took the lives of thousands of bosnian, muslims, and crow at his distinctive yellow building on the front line. saw the siege and bloodshed closer, but also became a fortress for the world's media. this is the story of sorry, a bose infamous war hotel. the holiday in me, in 1982 sorry eva was preparing to host the 14th winter olympic games. 2 years

later, the holiday inn designated for v i. peas and senior olympic committee figures was under construction before the hotel was built. the land was called circus plat, because visiting circuses used to set up that kenneth morrison is a professor of modern history at lester's de monfort university in the u. k. he's written 4 books on the balkans, including one about, sorry, a bose landmark holiday in the design of the building was quite controversial. that was designed by this thought able architect, events that i was students, buildings. you can find all over the city, the skill model, the original skill model of the hotel was them was built in yellow, was constructed of yellow plastic. but when the builders who were working on the building actually started to construct the facade and they saw that the facade was actually yellow, even that i said that they came quite a short,

they didn't expect the building itself actually to be mostly an architect. he then stress came up with a new hotel concept, which he called a city in a hotel, which you have no need to leave. floors encourage killers, which will open into a spacious lobby, giving the illusion of greater size. the holiday in grand opening was on the 6th of october, 1983 with the president of the international olympic committee. one antonio summer ranch in attendance one of the few people who worked at the hotel since the start is high row rough channing. he's now the hotels executive director dan plans are in p k g. a very small center see at the southern gardens below that below the hotel would always be for a moment to sceptre near below. sir ga they are not. if they're not,

she said no, no, no, no, it's your favorite was there shut the nuclear power. bo berlin deck worked as a translator for foreign media and he's very familiar with the holiday inn. she and kenneth morrison visited the hotel while he was working on his new book about the reporting of the siege of sorry, april for me, the hotter holidays was over and very important. first for the olympic games. i was really young girl who worked for the for the guess how was translator and hotel. and in fact, for the 1st time when i get to the hot to holidays was during, during the game event. fist goes over golf. the you for your sorry a winter was short little do joe as it's 0. and mr. mendoza, tito had led the socialist federal republic of yugoslavia since 1944. his death

in 1980 left a political vacuum, a worsening economic crisis. and led to a wave of nationalism in the early 19 ninety's, serbia croatia, slovenia, bosnia, hudson, governor, montenegro and macedonia. pulled themselves violently upon after the 1990 elections in bosnia herzegovina, 3 main nationalists parties shed power. the muslim s. d. a led by elia is a beg of which the serv, sds, under, rather than courage, and a branch of from you to germans, croatian h, d, that the s d a n h d 's ed wanted independence. while the serve as d. s. wanted to remain in the realm of yugoslavia along with serbia and montenegro . so the relationships between these 3 parties soon deteriorated dramatically.

on the 29th, so february $992.00, a bosnian independence referendum was held. the muslims known as both next and the croatians took a full part, but the bosnian serbs largely boycotted the vote and rejected the yes result. on the 1st of march, the same day a serv wedding party was sporting the serbian flag in downtown san diego. when it was fired on by a bosnian muslim gangster killing the grooms father, the family made for the holiday inn where a number of rooms had become the temporary h q of the bosnian serb leader rather than carriage. the bloody wedding episode may have offered the bosnian serbs the opportunity they've been waiting for that same night, they began implementing what was effectively a dress rehearsal for the siege of sorry, a bow. barricades appeared. an armed masked man stalked the streets from

his hub, but the holiday in red of an carriage over saw the action. this room room 5 studio, the suite was all seized by brother and cottages, the leader of the serbian democratic party, rest. yes, he lived here with his family in this sweet cottage, his wife and his 2 children, and they stayed here until the shootings on the 6th of april, at 1992, where after cottage escape from the hotel with his family. monday the 6th of april, a lodge, but peaceful protest football's in unity had made its way from the parliament towards the holiday in encourage you to put snipers on the upper floors open. fire was the engine list. semi courage was near by when the shooting started. i remember when the shots came from the holiday and actually we heard cracks, we heard some noise and then we so people, you know, falling down stairs,

you do running everywhere, you know, hiding behind trees, find some small buildings and everything. the better place civilian hotel was not in a proud soul for them. and so for sally financials name again, my name is spelled parliament up front to search it for you, but it will be with swat. it was 6 civilians were killed on that 1st day of the siege. carriage it. she's gods and family escaped from the hotel, but both the police arrested subs snipers in the lobby of the holiday in which then remain closed for several months. from here, the 3 and a half year war erupt it and spread across all above near her to governor.

in april and may 1992 dozens of journalists had arrived in sarajevo among the experience martin bell to be here tomorrow. negotiating from this very hotel, i don't see that. he and his crew 1st stayed here at the hotel bozeman, in elisha, near the martin bel lives in north london. he left the b. b. c. in 1997 to become a member of parliament. and is now a unicef ambassador. but to those who knew and in bosnia, he'll always be the man in the white suit. we arrived in a great rush because the wood already broken out. and frankly, we were a day late. we drove in from belgrade,

and the obvious place stopping place was ojo wasn't in elisha. the 1st major battle of the war took place on the 22nd of april 1992. in an around the hotel between the bosnian serbs and yugoslav, army on one side and the emerging bosnian muslim groups on the other. it lasted for 10 days. one camera man was wounded. another tv cruise rooms were hit by snipers, and shelley martin bell and his crew were trapped inside the hotel with all the journalists, guests, and stuff. these red pitches shot by the bbc's, eric powell, show them the crew doing a live link for london. with may have going on around the morning

so we were on the balcony of the hotel bows. and while we were there, a huge battle erupted all around us as they have done in the past to me. but it is, it is difficult to see that working at the moment because it is not as you around me, the real call at 6 o'clock in a sometimes things happen and i filled the air above my head. something was happening to it. a bulletin whistled by and, and suck air out of it. and it hit the wall behind me. if you'll excuse me, i just want to break off because we've had some lunch in danger. the crew out here and at that point i turned to the camera man and i said look, good aloud of you for our own safety. and we just closed down and went inside. and that was the last time you did alive to weigh in a public space in bosnia, for the whole of the more on the 15th of may. 1992

margin bell and all the other journalists left the hotel both set up the new base of the holiday. in the summer of 1992, the serbs were tightening the new surround sarajevo on the shelling and like this were relentless and indiscriminate. the holiday inn had become the permanent home for hundreds of correspondence, photographers and crews. among them was paul lo and a bosnian journalist, ominous abbot judge, who had become his wife after the war. hiero rough channel welcomed his old friends back to the holiday, and i think maybe the holy and became the war hotel in, sorry, but because of a kind of accident, but also by design because of its unique location, the center of the city almost like this kind of fortress that you could look out

from all sides onto the rest of the terrain. somehow or other were never quite sure why the hotel managed to keep the supplies of food coming in. and it managed to keep itself relatively safe. your sheldon shot out on occasion, but in general it was seen as there's kind of safe haven in the center of the city . ah. hotel was very strange place. i remember and i came here for the 1st on it. it was just amazing. that was all this journalist that was, you know, lots of them are experienced. it was like little town in itself. by the time i came back, which was a but the 2nd week in june, the holiday inn was more or less put together, but i stayed. and a flat which actually had a better view on the holiday and of the nightly pyrotechnics of the fighting. ah, that i felt i needed to be closer to the gossip of the press court. so i also took

a room in the newly reopened holiday and told me about the turn 2nd of june. and that's how i 1st came to live, and i loved the people in san diego. consider the 22nd of july 1992, the fiercest and bloody as day of the siege. more than 3500 shells were fired across the city. that day. most pictures and video of the bombardment of the city were filmed from the holiday, and the hotel was hit directly several times by heavy fire from sir posts, and go to bed and mount treble, which the side of the hotel that you can see behind me was very badly damaged by shell and sniper fire. it was completely uninhabitable. journalist didn't use that side of the hotel resume yourself.

your competitor? actually talked line us with the gallery of the building. these rare pictures filmed in may 993. show the scale of the destruction inside the hotel, where the main entrance and reception were the most dangerous areas. here was the 1st floor restroom, directly facing the front line. and here, an exposed side entrance, a virtual no go area. the basement garage itself, which shelton and so was packed with press carson armored vehicle, but getting in and out every day was extremely dangerous. so there was a sense of this being a concrete cocoon, which was completely false because people were shot dead on the entrance to the hotel. but you know, that kind of setting on sudden unwritten rules. you didn't come in through the front entrance and that was what happens. the people who were shot,

they came into the wrong entrance. basically i thought to myself, i've got a better chance of surviving if i don't enter the hotel through the main door, which was in the line of fire from the serbs opposite. and i had a further superstition as i was always walk to my room in the clockwise direction, however long it took rather than the anti clockwise direction. and it sort of helped to keep your life on the night of the 13th of november, 1994. the hotel was hit by a barrel shells, and smelling around causing a huge fire. and terminal in among the journalists. i do remember time in hotel was was a shelter and started burning. at the time i was in the rotors office and very thick smoke. basically over took the whole floor on the 5th floor and managed somehow to crawl out. for me myself. i spent a little time outside anyway, you know, so i felt safer when i came to the building on the 3 of the river. but the no, no,

we didn't feel safe. there was no, no way we could have felt. ah, the main street between the holiday inn and the parliament building became known as the night behind me. if my or both me or the dragon of boss, now it's the name of the street. but 25 years ago. this was known as a sniper alley. this is one of the most dangerous intersections in inside able the hotel thought immediately on 9th alley. and of course, the journalists were living in and truck summative, much of the sniper fire, which is one of the reasons why so much footage amity from journalists around this particular area. they were located in the hotel. the snipers were particularly active in this area.

according to 995 view in figures, 225 people were killed here, 60 of them children, and over a 1000 injured. during the siege, the foreign correspondence and photographers became a part of people's daily lives in san diego. on the ground, the conflict was relentless, but the world became increasingly de sensitized to people's pain and suffering. some like march in bel pull marshal and bobo liz dag stopped wearing flat jackets and helmets, while reporting amongst civilians. nita pulls on myself, works like jacket during the war on our regular work missions during the day. because for him, as for me, was really decent to wear flag jacket in front of the unprotected people from who were in the street and who will completely exposed to snipers and shelling every

single day. mm yeah, it keep it, keep us cnn unami for a minute, which, you know, small and yet sort of. so whether donna doris and set up the via course p i drive its soft vicious kayla trumpeter. are many so beetle cardoso we are currently merely asked me oh i still photographers of toll no also captured moments of great power and poignancy. his prime location was at the notorious night per intersection by ali pasha mosque

on marshall tito street. here he took one of the iconic pictures of the siege of, sorry, a bow where we're standing now was probably the most dangerous place, the entire city to sun. so when people want to come join the war to get into the main parts, the city, they had to cross it intersection. and the only way you could do that was to sprint for your life. otherwise you would have been killed. the so i start from exactly this position because i was protected from this night that in the hills. if i move forward just a couple of centimeters, then i could have been shot from here, protected by the, the, to me and by the role. and i could stay here relatively safely and shoot insurance and shoot and shoot me stories abound involving gin lift and the people,

i'm sorry, even church schalk was an american journalist, whom every one of the holiday inn knew well me one of the most dramatic scenes of the siege took place at lyon cemetery on the 4th of august. 1992 shook with a team from roy covering the funeral of 2 children killed by noises. despite the shilling, he tended to a badly wounded woman. then got him into his agency car and took her to the hospital. kurt shook reported on another tragic story. it took place close to the holiday inn of the notorious for benya bridge, and became known as the sarajevo romeo and juliet. schalk heard about 2 bodies lying at the bridge and he and semi courage went to get

a closer look. we went to the scene, we had to, we had to hire because it was on the front line. very, very frontline. and we so 2 young people laying next stage to other hogs and obviously that there was the same as very well known story of survival, romeo and juliet bush and a mirror. the couple who won, they decided they want to leave for the siege survivor. he was a sort of, she was in woodland, they loved each other very much and they decided to leave. somebody probably told them that's safe to leave, you know, they were killed o cut short became very emotionally attached to the families of boscoe berg kitch. and that near the eastern edge, ah,

he dies with death again 5 years later, when he and 3 roaches and a p colleagues were ambushed by militiamen and sierra leone in may 2000 shore. and his camera man, producer, were killed instantly. at his request, half of sharks, ashes were buried in sarajevo, the city of his beloved romeo and juliet. the main road to the airport is now named after him. ah the siege of sorry ovo lost in 1425 days. $11541.00 citizens were killed and many more injured. the siege was lifted on the 29th of february, $996.00. following the signing of the dayton peace agreement that ended the bosnian conflict. the holiday inn is still standing under new management

and with a new name and remains a landmark and rejuvenated city. a symbol of the endurance and fortitude of the people of sarajevo. remembering their iconic war hotel holiday and sorry of it. it was the alternate was in the hotel, south side blown away by shots and shell. patented the lodging place from hill. and yet away from where the motor's fill. it did not just survive but constant spell. it was refuge and it served as well as he ran away. it seemed a question more like ground 0 and place of rest by normal standards. it was quite the worst, but it to us was and folk, it seemed the best we, the believers, they, the infidels in this most dangerous of all hotels. and those who stayed that were uniquely best.

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