Gorazde 1995 -
📌 Lesson: Survival isn't luck. It's the will to defend, a geography that favors the brave, and a world that finally watches.
July 1995. The hills around Goražde were on fire.
We talk about the wars of the 1990s as a tragedy of inaction. Goražde is the exception that proves the rule: gorazde 1995
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By mid-1995, Goražde was one of six UN "Safe Areas" established by the UNPROFOR mission. But unlike Srebrenica and Žepa, which fell to Bosnian Serb forces that July, Goražde held the line. 📌 Lesson: Survival isn't luck
By July '95, Bosnian Serb forces wanted to "cleanse" it. But NATO bombs finally fell. The siege broke.
When the world finally sent planes (not troops, just planes), the Serb tanks pulled back. Goražde breathed. The hills around Goražde were on fire
Today, the Drina flows green again. But every bridge in town is a memorial.