MOSTAR DURING THE WAR (1992) first time on YouTube!

[theonewithallgossips]

I think that the only thing to blame is politicians! This war was between Croats, Serbs and Muslims but i believe that they were living in harmony before this war, and they're also fine all together !  Blaming a nation is not right !

[Sp1nS1ide]

SEE!!! this is really beautful. i am a Bosnian Muslim and i respect those catholic croats and serbian orthodox who helped Bosnian muslims from the Serbian Chetniks or Croatian fasists.

No matter who you are and you die with ur croatian friend or serbian.

You will be buried with the innocent people who died their. no matter if you croatian nor bosnian muslim!

[wlwak]

It is funny how everyone talks about Sarajevo and Mostar and Srebrenica and blames Serbia for the deaths in those places. But nobody talks about the Serbs who were murdered in Sarajevo and Mostar and Srebrenica.

This war in Yugoslavia is the only war I ever heard of in my life where one side in the conflict were all to blame and had zero casualties!

Serbs were murdered and butchered in Sarajevo and Mostar and in Srebrenica too. That is why Mladic took revenge in 95. He saved women and kids too.

[kljukusa6]

just look at the statistics on civilian deaths, and you will see that bosnian muslim civilians deaths are disproportional compared to those of the other nationalities. the serbian and croatian sides were organized and especially the sds on the serbian side. ethnic cleansing was perpetrated in an organized fashion in eastern bosnia. bosnian muslims turning extremist was a reaction to chetnik and ustasa ideologies. why were no churches dynamited in any of the muslim controlled cities? look at BL

[SFseis]

Actually it was the croats who destroyed the mostar's famous bridge...

[MrIMADOPE]

First time I went to Medjugorje was in 93 and I remember this and all the surrounding areas looking like this. It made me appreciate life for the first time in the 22yrs I was alive. My heart goes out to all who suffered this madness.

[TomsonPS]

muslimuns, bosnians and croatians its not friends. thats why mostar is destroyed.

[Hrvatina1990Travnik]

Muslims and Croats need to make peace again I hate this hate that exists between us because both sides think the other is guilty while Chetniks wanted to destroy us both it sucks....I especially cannot stand Croats who leave hate comments after Muslims because I myself am a Catholic and if you are a Croat and you love God so much listen to the messages of Medjugorje where Gospa tells us she is sad because of the division in Bosnia and wants all religions to live as if we were all one!!

[MedjugorjeBeliever]

Serbs are also responsible for the war

between Muslims and Croats because Muslim refugeees poured into central Bosnia because of Serbian agression and it led to tensions where Bosnian Muslims eventually attacked

Croats wich also led to the conflict between Muslims and Croats in Herzegovina and Mostar..

[EmA1991AlEn]

You are VERY well educated.... thank you 4 the truth my friend....

My mum is a Muslim, my father is a Croat, my dad was reading this and said that you would have to be very well educated to speak the truth and that's exactly what you've done GOD BLESS YOU!!

My mum's even set up a charity in Herzegovina for Croats and Muslims who were affected in the war, she respects both sides, and will make sure that enough is being done to assure that both sides are able to mourn their losses and live in peac

[MedjugorjeBeliever]

@sinister

They are called Chetniks because Serbian soldiers who bombed cities like Mostar wore Chetnik unifroms and proudly called themselves Chetniks

when they bombed cities and raped and murdered civilians.

Stop trying to spread your lies...and obviously you are spreading propaganda because you just blamed the whole war on Bosnian Muslims...when the fact

is that Serbs started the war by bombing Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina after Croats and Muslims declared independence..

[MedjugorjeBeliever]

@Sebastian

No it was actually Serbs who bombed the city first and then both Muslims and Croats fought each other but somehow it all gets blamed on the Croats....do you not see that a Croatian church is burning here and most of the victims in this video are Croats...it's amazing what things people make up.

[MedjugorjeBeliever]

now the Croatians who converted to Islam during Turkish rule don't want us to have what is ours well who cares you know

the history it is all Croatia that is the only right thing anybody who has a problem can get out..Muslims were all in the Ustasa during WW2 and you had a huge mosque in the center of Zagreb built by

Catholics to show you that we accept you it is not our problem you change your nationality every 5 years..you are Muslim Croats accept it or get out and leave us alone finally.

[MedjugorjeBeliever]

you turned against us burned Croatian flags in the center of the town and destroyed churches.. so don't try to compare Croatians to Serbs wether you like it or not Croats were just defending their land

and yes there were crimes in the Croatian Army too but nothing like what the Serbs did......I don't care if nobody can accept it but Bosnia and Herzegivna was Croatian until Serbian Chetniks

killed thousands of Croats during both Yugoslavias and cleansed it..

[MedjugorjeBeliever]

the conflict between Muslims and Croats started in central Bosnia and

yes Bosnian Muslims did start it because thousands of Muslims refugees came in from Serbian agression and then decided they wanted to cleanse the Croats because we were too weak..I am from Travnik and yes it is a FACT

20,000 Croats were kicked out and half of my family was murdered by Muslims...

[RainhadoCanto]

I have never forgotten, when visiting there in November of 1992, being stopped at the border with Croatia, the most horrible sight my eyes will ever see: a human column of Muslim refugees, the very old, the very young, women, all ABUSED and EXPELLED from their homes, now headed for nowhere, with all they could possibly carry on their backs,... blank stares upon their faces,... even in those of the children!!...

[ProLove92]

hey! I am from Mostar..

And its pretty sad how destroyed this city was..

Nowadays it is a bit better.. but there are everywhere houses which are still broken into..

I feel so sorry.

[bucicuci]

I wish people would stop living in the past, and start concentrating on the future. Mostar is a beautiful city, and it has so much potential, but unfortunately, we can't move on, simply because people in Mostar don't want to move on. Sad...

[patkiely2007]

I agree,Pat

[evamor44]

Beautiful...Thank you for this lovely post. I think of how my Grandmother would have fealt to have been there herself.

[sejlamoja]

There's no point arguing with Serbs and Croatians these days, they think that they've done nothing wrong. My home town is destroyed by both of them, my family members killed for nothing, there is no future there and yet they have the audacity to say that the Bosnians started it all??? Go figure.

I think what they need is both a heart and a brain. I do feel sorry for them in that respect only.

[sebastian577]

Croatian artillery was what destroyed the once beautiful city.

[nightski]

Now Mostar is the most beauitful city I have seen in Bosnia!

[patkiely2007]

Because they are catholic of course,not muslim.

[patkiely2007]

The voice on the video is not mine,but I too saw those poor prisoners you mention pass by and felt moved to tears as later i heard gunshots.

Blame rests on all sides for the atrocoties that occured in Mostar.

This video raised several thousand sterling which was later used to purchase medicines etc which was divided between the 3 groups in MOotar,i know, because i helped deliver them the following year and was very lucky to escape a sniper's bullet while doing so.

God bless,Pat

[EmA1991AlEn]

Hey...

Just wanted to say thanks 4 the video....

My mother is a Muslim, while my dad is a Croat...

They have many friends in Mostar, despite the religious differences there.....

They themselves found this extremely moving....

[sinster85]

"A column of Chetnik prisoners marched to a fate unknown..." Foreigners, do not let this mellow voice deceive you. It is a hateful video which glorifies the abuse of Serbs, calling them "Chetniks." I wonder what happened to those "Chetniks"... were they murdered by the Croats or Bosnian Muslims, much like thousands of other Serbs whose stories were never heard in the Western media. Shame on you Serb-haters! We will prevail in the battle against your Greater Croatian chauvinism!

[patkiely2007]

Dear sinister 85,

The people involved in this video were not Serb Haters,but simple people from many countries,who had gone to Bosnia to take part in a prayer march for peace.

The visit to Mostar that day was in peace and sadness. (continued)

[sinster85]

Why are they called Chetniks then? Do you know that this is insulting to Serbs? Chetniks were WWII royal guerilla fighters, by equating any Serb to a Chetnik you are considering all Serbs to be combatants, and thus fair targets.

[patkiely2007]

Dear sinister 85,this kind of bigoted name calling of different groups, has happened in the North of Ireland for generations.

Thankyou for the info,I will check into what you say further,but the person who wrote that poem may have been in ignorance about the meaning of the name 'Chetniks.'

Seeing a group of men of any background, marched off to execution is an awful experience.

[sinster85]

Yes, you can check it, but have no doubt about it Serbs consider it an offense. It's similar to calling all Croats "Ustashe." Whoever wrote the poem was no lover of peace.

[darmar1905]

Meraklija773 talks in the name of terorists muslim terorist who bring nothing good to this country and the whole world...they killed so many children and woman in the name od Alah..

So dont talk about People of Christ....

Mostar is beautifull town but with no future

[piliandmanolo]

Sorry, but they did't figth in the name of Ala, They were figthting in the name of freedom!!! and they weren't terorist!!

[AdoKingPro]

the same horrible criminals/terrorists who committed this are NOT being shown. it even gets uglier in 93! Western media shall NEVER ever show the true face of the true terrorists!

[guziti]

this video breaks my heart

[4asatan]

"cetnik prisoners" she says?

[sarowynn]

I was there with UNPROFOR UN CANADIAN PEACE KEAPER! PEACE! 12RBC esc A

[pivkan]

Yeah when Serbs shell back at Muslims in Sarajevo then its a crime but when you lot absolutely fuck up ancient city such as Mostar plus drive out all the Serbs out of it, noone speaks of that as being a war crime and barbaric destruction. The new bridge is 12m lower than the old - someone stole the money!

[darmar1905]

You found mostar like some kid of adventure...

i was in mostar during all war...

[patkiely2007]

Darmar,u must have been only a child at the time...very frightening.

I was there before and after this video was made ...no adventure ... just very sad ...for all concerned.

I remember drinking coffee in the sunshine too, before the war and walking over the ancient bridge and visiting churches and mosques i later saw destroyed in the war.

[Meraklija773]

People of Christ attacked this beautiful city you uneducated idiot.

"Burning church right before our eyes" while 9 mosques dating back to the Ottoman Empire were burned to ground.

Get your facts straight before you get involved in something that you obviously know nothing about!

[patkiely2007]

Attacked by people of Mohammed also Brother.

Catholic orthodox churches and mosques were all shelled and damaged,i saw them with my own eyes...your proflie says u live in usa,were you there in the war?or are u just getting info from the media?>

[VALDIGNE]

most of the crimes were committed by orthodox serbs followed by catholics croats of course muslims bosnjaks committed some crimes too.

[sinster85]

Bosnian Muslims were most responsible for the war. Had they accepted a Bosnian state that would guaranteed civil rights to all of its ethnicities, none of this would have happened. Bosnian Muslim extremism is the cause of much of the evil in Bosnia.

[mudzah10edin]

only reason why muslims were killed was the name and religion.serbs scared their children with the stories of mujahedins and kosovo and now those kids were killing and slaughtering inocent children.Do you know any serb woman that was raped 100 times in one week?There was a little muslim girl age 14 who lived through this.

[irfanbachdim]

serbian and croatian has to be responsible for this unfair war

[VALDIGNE]

you are absolutely right, christians committed some of the most vicious atrocities in the balkans from 91-95 of course majority of the crimes were made by orthodox serbs.

Greets from Italy

[sumrandomaccount420]

beautiful video

volim te bosna

never forget 92-95

[nasuof]

hand by hand we`ll get the strength ,

with rose in hand we`ll find the way ,

[MaxTMH]

Thanks for that Pat; an accurate picture, brings back a few memories. GBU

[tam3939]

very powerful , God bless

[moxiethedog]

Very poignant.  Thank you.