April 2000. A journey to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999 by Marcel Stoessel. "From the pilgrimage place of Medjugorje, where Catholics from all over the world pray for peace, I hitchhike down to Mostar, the city of apartheid in continental Europe. “The weather is strange”, I say to the nice Croat who gives me a ride down the hills of the Herzegovina, “rain and sunshine at the same time”. He laughs: “This is the Balkans - crazy!”

April 1998. Many new sites have come online in the last 18 months. Much has happened. For recent news see This Week in Bosnia.

November 4, 1996 The war in Bosnia through the eyes of its children. They write: "this website recounts their experiences of the war using the photos, artwork, and stories gathered by Dr. Stephen Kaplan and Dr. Garth Katner during their visit to Tuzla the summer of 1996. Both participated in the Summer University Program which was co-sponsored by the University of Tuzla and Foundation YSY. YSY is a Dutch student organization from the University of Amsterdam that has been supporting the University of Tuzla with academic programs, equipment, and faculty exchanges since 1992."

September 16, 1996. Witness, a new online documentary site. Includes QTVR and half a dozen eye-witness stories, including one by American soldiers in Brcko! Highly recommended.

August 2, 1996. The OSCE Bosnia Official Election Web Site. elections are scheduled for Sept. 14, and Bosnians have until August 5 to register. The site also has maps, links to the Dayton Agreement and other useful info. The results page (added Sept. 23, 1996).

July 6, 1996. The Community of Bosnia Foundation, maintained by Vanja Filipovic, a Bosnian student at Haverford college in Pennsylvania.

March 12, 1996. Excerpts from the regional press of the Former Yugoslavia, translated to English. Firsthand material, without the "filtering".

January 29, 1996. OneWorld Online's news articles about Bosnia.

December 14, 1995. CNN coverage of the signing of the Peace Treaty. Includes a QuickTime movie, pictures and sounds.

December 4, 1995. The Commission of Experts on the Former Yugoslavia. This is the documentation of war crimes (all 3,300 pages in HTML!).

N E W ! ! On November 21, 1995, the presidents of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia signed an agreement to end the war. See our map page for the new map of Bosnia.

See the CNN story.

See the UK Electronic Telegraph story.

CNN pages about Bosnia are slickly informative. Includes movies, photos, text, chronology etc.

| Other Bosnia pages |

Resources from OneWorld Online, a British charity promoting sustainable development.

Bosnia homepage at Caltech, includes photos and action-group contacts.

Another photographic exhibition is Picture Projects. Only go when you are ready for it.

| Serbia |

The Serbian web pages (no mention of the conflict; calls itself "Yugoslavia"). Served from the University of Maryland.

| Croatia |

The Croatian pages (served from Croatia).

| Macedonia/FYROM/Skopje |

Virtual Macedonia has been rated as one of the top 5% of web sites. (NB: The matter of the name "Macedonia" is of some importance, and by including this link the BVF does not necessarily endorse the Macedonia/FYROM position on this matter.)

During April, 1995 Bosnia entered its fourth year of war. As an effort at direct communication between the citizens of its capital Sarajevo and the internet community a project called "Sarajevo Alive-Sarajevo Online" was set up to exchange messages during March 29 to April 10, 1995. Read the messages--they're amazing.

You can post a message on the Sarajevo Pipeline page. Theoretically it will go to Sarajevo.

"We think that Internet questions are difficult for us to answer. It is very sad that you do not know, after three years of war, how we live here. We live very hard and this is not a proper life for teenagers. We are supposed to go out, to travel, to have everything that teenagers need. Instead we have a war and your stupid questions. If we could leave Sarajevo we would. We would go for the rest of our lives because we are living in a big concentration camp. A modern concentration camp.
"All of this is not of any use to us. The best way to find out something about life here is to come. Then you can try and understand.
"If you can't come, invite us. We will live in your houses, and you will live in ours. Just for 15 days, then we will send you some questions about life here.
"GET US OUT OF HERE!!!!!!!!!!"
--Sanja, Lejla, Emir, Goran, Edin, Ismar, Lela, Nino, Soopy, ..... and others, seniors in high school, on the "Sarajevo Online" Internet project