photograph by Sebastiao Salgado
The distance between the Bosnian cities of Zepa and Kladanj is roughly 40 kilometers. Kladanj to Zenica is close to 60.
That's a long way to run from a killer.
A moment, undoubtedly brief, of hard-fought repose falls like a chilly November on this young refugee family in Kladanj in central Bosnia in 1995.
They are on their way to Zepa, a city that offers better shelter amidst the ethnic cleansing that boiled them out of their homes in eastern Bosnia. In 2007 the British Broadcasting Corporation released that the death toll in the war in Bosnia during the 1990s was 97,207; 65% of whom were Bosniak Muslims.
I have never slept the way they are. Look at them. That mother is so strong. The two girls - how do they help their mother run with the baby? How do two girls their age cope with responsibilities of supporting their mother and caring for the little one? Are they coping with losing their youth to being on the run? Or has it gone already? And the little one- what does she feel?
I wish I didn't have any more questions.
Salgado, Sebastião. Migrations: Humanity In Transition. New York: Aperture, 2000. 127. Print.
"Bosnia war dead figure announced." BBC NEWS Europe 21 June 2007: n. pag. Web. 18 Feb 2010.
That's a long way to run from a killer.
A moment, undoubtedly brief, of hard-fought repose falls like a chilly November on this young refugee family in Kladanj in central Bosnia in 1995.
They are on their way to Zepa, a city that offers better shelter amidst the ethnic cleansing that boiled them out of their homes in eastern Bosnia. In 2007 the British Broadcasting Corporation released that the death toll in the war in Bosnia during the 1990s was 97,207; 65% of whom were Bosniak Muslims.
I have never slept the way they are. Look at them. That mother is so strong. The two girls - how do they help their mother run with the baby? How do two girls their age cope with responsibilities of supporting their mother and caring for the little one? Are they coping with losing their youth to being on the run? Or has it gone already? And the little one- what does she feel?
I wish I didn't have any more questions.
Salgado, Sebastião. Migrations: Humanity In Transition. New York: Aperture, 2000. 127. Print.
"Bosnia war dead figure announced." BBC NEWS Europe 21 June 2007: n. pag. Web. 18 Feb 2010.
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