🕊️ Remembering the defenders and civilians who endured 1,370 days of siege. 🇧🇦
Goražde 1995: The Safe Area That Survived
Goražde, summer '95 – a masterclass in survival against all odds.
📌 Lesson: Survival isn't luck. It's the will to defend, a geography that favors the brave, and a world that finally watches. gorazde 1995
We talk about the wars of the 1990s as a tragedy of inaction. Goražde is the exception that proves the rule:
July 1995. The hills around Goražde were on fire.
When the world finally sent planes (not troops, just planes), the Serb tanks pulled back. Goražde breathed. 🕊️ Remembering the defenders and civilians who endured
In the summer of 1995, while the world’s eyes were fixed on Srebrenica and Sarajevo, the small Drina River city of Goražde faced its own Armageddon.
While Srebrenica fell, Goražde fought. Surrounded, shelled, and starved—this Drina River city survived the worst of the Bosnian War.
By July '95, Bosnian Serb forces wanted to "cleanse" it. But NATO bombs finally fell. The siege broke. It's the will to defend, a geography that
Today, Goražde is a quiet, rebuilt city. But the bullet holes on its riverfront buildings still whisper the story of the summer of '95—when a small town refused to become a footnote in genocide.
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