Articles

Jasenko Selimovic

Jasenko's Flight

Jasenko was the only passenger on the flight, one of the last into Sarajevo before the siege. The war came as a total shock: "We couldn’t believe that something like that could happen in our country … that people could get assassinated because of their name or nationality."

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Distribution of blankets by UNHCR to returnees.

Ali's Journey Home

This particular morning Ali could not avoid war’s indiscriminate destruction, and the next thing he remembers was waking in a Red Cross clinic, fighting for his life. A shell had exploded a few yards from Ali, riddling his body with shrapnel.

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Films

Life in a goods wagon

Konul’s family was forced to flee. Her family of eleven has had no option but to live in a goods wagon.Konul's dream is to have a 'corner' for herself...

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A vital decision

Zinnah fled on foot to Sierra Leone. Her parents are dead and Zinnah makes bread to earn money to look after her sister, the only family she has left.

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