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Authors: Zlata Filipovic

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16) “I will try to get through this, with your support, Mimmy, hoping that it will all pass and... that I will be a child again, living my childhood in peace. ”
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The Catholic humanitarian aid and relief organization.
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President of the Soros Foundation in Sarajevo and editor-in-chief of ZID, the independent radio station.
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Resort outside of Sarajevo, now headquarters of the Bosnian Serbs.
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A well-known newscaster on television, one of the founders of the YUTEL television station before the war.
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General of the then Yugoslav Army, who was in Sarajevo when the war broke out.
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This may be referring to the “h” once given to certain local Turkish and other words and pronunciation, and later dropped from usage.
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Kurban-Bairam is the second of the Muslims' two Bairam religious holidays; rams (kurbani) are slaughtered for this second Bairam.
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See photo 13. Above the arrow pointing to a can of Pepsi, Zlata has written: AAAAAH—IT'S POURING OUT!“

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