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	Green Left - Grbavica: Sarajevo's open wound
		The treatment of Grbavica, the suburb of Sarajevo occupied by Serb Chetnik forces, is as uncertain as the future of the city as a whole.
		The atmosphere in Grbavica is permanently threatening: you have to have the official papers to justify every step you make, and non-Serbs feel that something terrible could happen at any moment.
		In Grbavica, Muslims are the people of the tenth class and Croats of the ninth.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1994/146/9570 (1061 words)

	Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2007) - MovieWeb
		Set in a contemporary Sarajevo still reeling from the aftermath of war, "Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams" is a textured and authentic testament to the innate drive to triumph over conflict.
		Throughout the film, Jasmila Zbanic indeed reveals the women of Grbavica to be a community of strong-willed survivors.
		Esma (Mirjana Karanovic) is a single mother who lives with her rebellious twelve-year-old daughter, Sara (Luna Mijovic), in the Grbavica district of Sarajevo, a neighborhood used as an internment camp during the conflict in the nineties.
	www.movieweb.com /movies/film/18/4718/summary.php (168 words)

	Grbavica (2006)
		Grbavica is a district of Sarajevo and translates to "hunchbacked woman".
		She assuredly, with a hand of a born film-maker, creates a small but potent film which is a startling reminder of cinema's transcendental powers.
		'Grbavica' is sure to snuggle in the same underrated niche of anti-war movies that deal with lasting trauma on the psyche of war survivors.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0464029 (737 words)

	RTÉ.ie Entertainment: Bosnian film Grbavica takes the Golden Bear
		Bosnian drama 'Grbavica' has taken the Golden Bear award at the 56th Berlin Film Festival.
		Directed by Sarajevan Jasmila Zbanic, 'Grbavica' highlights the issue of the rape of 20,000 women during the 1992-1995 siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian war.
		The low-budget film tells the story of a Muslim woman who tries to conceal her past in order to protect her teenage daughter.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2006/0220/berlinfilmfestival.html (368 words)

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		One wouldn't normally associate Grbavica, a suburb of Sarajevo, with a love story because it was the scene of so much death and destruction.
		Grbavica remained under Serb control until March 19, 1996, when IFOR supervised its return to Bosnian government control.
		By that time, most of the Serb residents were already driven out by their own nationalist leaders, but not before everything of value was looted and most else -- including plumbing, electrical fixtures, and furniture -- destroyed.
	www.friendsofbosnia.org /zones/images/Images_13.htm (307 words)

	Gangs of Serbs ravage suburb near Sarajevo
		GRBAVICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Smoke spiraled from the last Serb-held area of Sarajevo Sunday night as gangs of Serb toughs set buildings ablaze, raped old women and ransacked apartments in a final spasm of violence before this desolate stretch of battered high-rises returns to Muslim control Tuesday.
		While NATO soldiers, who are supposed to have secured the area, carried out individual acts of heroism, U.N. officials were vicious in their criticism of the NATO operation as a whole in Grbavica, the last of five Serb-held suburbs to be transferred to the mostly Muslim Bosnian government.
		Grbavica's war chief, known only as The Duke, had vowed to make the district "burn brighter than Atlanta during the American Civil War,"before the Muslims takeover.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/96/03/18/bosnia-serbs.html (1019 words)

	Sarajevo rejoices after final Serb handovers: 3/20/96
		Grbavica, adjacent to the city center, saw some of the heaviest fighting.
		In another sign of the growing normalcy in the Bosnian capital, the last barricades against snipers were removed from Sarajevo's streets in the afternoon.
		Ljubica Tomic and her neighbor, Ana Tomic, both 65 but not related, didn't mind the grim landscape because they were delighted to be out in the fresh air.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/03-96/03-20-96/1bosnia.htm (485 words)

	Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Outside the Serb besiegers, the Serbs of Grbavica found themselves on the right side of the siege but the wrong side of the city's topography.
		Grbavica lies in the Sarajevo valley, and is linked to the same electricity and water grids.
		Marina's own apartment, in Grbavica, may be restored some day, but for now the old house has to be her home.
	www.advocacynet.org /news_view/news_49.html (3546 words)

	CNN - Serbs hand over Grbavica - Mar. 19, 1996
		Shortly after 6 a.m., 100 federation police took control of the suburb.
		Interior Minister Avdo Hebib unveiled a blue sign designating a federal police station in Grbavica, and he said the police force would protect citizens regardless of their ethnicity.
		Of the 60,000 Serbs who lived in the five suburbs, only about 11,000 remain.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/Bosnia/updates/9603/19 (458 words)

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		He had just finished telling us an account of what it was like for him first as a soldier for the JNA in 1991, and then deserting to become a member of the Bosnian Green Berets (or Patriots League) to defend Sarajevo.
		His house was in Grbavica, surrounded by Serbs early on in the war.
		If it were captured, first the Chetniks would kill him, they would beat his wife until she gave them any money that was in the house, kill her, and then rape his sister.
	users.crocker.com /~fob/zones/images/Images_20.htm (258 words)

	Morning Edition (NPR): Sarajevo Reunified as Serbs Relinquish Last Suburb@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Sarajevo suburb of Grbavica came under Muslim-Croat control today after years in Serb hands.
		The move unifies Sarajevo for the first time in four years and is symbolic of the peace process moving forward.
		Police from Bosnia' s Muslim-Croat Federation have moved into Grbavica, the last of the Serb suburbs to be turned over under terms of the Dayton agreement.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28474067&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (203 words)

	The Enquirer's Bosnia Series
		Before the war erupted in 1992, Grbavica was a serene residential section of the city, full of Serbs, Muslims and Croats.
		Grbavica residents now fear the notorious role the neighborhood played in the war will lead to reprisals once the Bosnian government takes control.
		Grbavica spent much of the war without electricity and running water.
	www.enquirer.com /bosnia/stories/bosnia0216.html (869 words)

	Former Yugoslavia: ICRC returns to the serb-controlled parts of Sarajevo
		ICRC teams on assessment and distribution missions visited first the districts of Hadzici, Vogosca, Ilijas and Ilidza, where 120 rolls of plastic sheeting, 1,500 blankets and 4,700 candles were given to local Red Cross organizations for people affected by the recent Bosnian government military operations and by the air strikes.
		Later on, ICRC delegates visited the Bosnian Serb-controlled suburbs of Grbavica, Lukavica and Vojkovici, where 1,500 blankets and 20 rolls of plastic sheeting were given to the local Red Cross.
		Sanitation equipment was issued to the local water board to help repair key water distribution installations in Grbavica and at the Kasindo hospital.
	www.icrc.org /Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/57JMK8 (289 words)

	Tearful reunions highlight final Serb handover in Sarajevo
		He did exactly that Tuesday, coming home in the first wave of returnees that crossed into formerly Serb-held Grbavica after Sarajevo was reunified.
		A few blocks away, Interior Minister Avdo Hebib unveiled a blue sign designating a federal police station in Grbavica and declared that Sarajevo was finally reunified.
		In addition to Grbavica, federal police moved into several other villages Tuesday, including some near the eastern town of Gorazde and southern town of Mostar, completing the land transfers required under the Dayton peace accord.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/96/03/20/yugo.html (869 words)

	CNN - Sarajevo suburb - Mar. 17, 1996
		GRBAVICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (CNN) -- Fires raged out of control in the Sarajevo suburb of Grbavica Sunday, engulfing homes, businesses and the main marketplace.
		Bosnian Serbs fleeing Grbavica continued to torch homes and buildings Saturday night and early Sunday, leaving charred ruins for the Muslims who will move in Tuesday when the district transfers to Muslim-Croat Federation control.
		Grbavica is the last Serb-held suburb to be transferred to the Muslim-Croat Federation as part of the Dayton peace accord.
	edition.cnn.com /WORLD/Bosnia/updates/9603/17 (387 words)

	News Briefs II (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Grbavica is one of several Serb suburbs that, under the U.S.-brokered Bosnia peace accord, will be transferred to Muslim-Croat government authority in a process to begin Saturday, when all Serb forces have to withdraw.
		The barricade blocking access to Grbavica had come to symbolize the insurmountable ethnic division created by the war; it was the closest thing to a Berlin Wall that Sarajevo had, located in the middle of the capital across the ill-named Brotherhood and Unity Bridge.
		Its continued presence, long after checkpoints elsewhere in the country had fallen, violated the ideal of free movement set forth in the peace accord and seemed to encourage both the Bosnian Serbs and the Muslim-led government to persist in restricting such movement of civilians.
	www-tech.mit.edu /Issue/V115/N67/briefs2.67w.html (516 words)

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		Perhaps presaging the possibility of warfare, all of the glass in the buildings was double-paned and bulletproof, but not bulletproof enough to stop the firepower unleashed by those intent on dividing and destroying the city.
		A much greater human toll was taken in Grbavica, a modern neighborhood across the river from the Unis Towers.
		While people were starving and dying of the cold in New Sarajevo, Serb residents of Grbavica had a steady supply of consumer goods and fuel coming from Srpska.
	www.friendsofbosnia.org /zones/images/Images_11.htm (242 words)

	Pitfalls of Peace in Bosnia
		Grbavica, the last of five Serb areas around Sarajevo being handed over to a Muslim-Croat federation, was in chaos, less than a mile from the headquarters of the 60,000-strong, U.S.-led NATO peace force and the U.N. administration tasked with returning Bosnia to normalcy.
		One elderly Muslim woman had her brains blown out, and a young Serb mother committed suicide with a hand grenade as her infant son lay nearby.
		Grbavica residents walk past a former food warehouse, which was set on fire.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF1704/Beelman/Beelman.html (2055 words)

	1996/06/02 22:41 PARTS OF SARAJEVO AFTER REINTEGRATION INTO FEDERATION OF
		Until the beginning of the war in Bosnia & Herzegovina she was the artistic director of all significant and complex projects of Television Sarajevo, which this house got numerous and deserved praises for.
		When Grbavica was liberated and annexed to the Federation of Bosnia & Herzegovina, she went back to her old post in Television Sarajevo.
		A couple of doctors, Josip and Biljana Vincetic, have also spent the war in Grbavica, they worked in the out-patient clinic there, as the remaining citizens of Grbavica claim, they did their jobs on an exceptionally high professional and ethical level.
	www.aimpress.ch /dyn/trae/archive/data/199606/60602-003-trae-sar.htm (1499 words)

	Grbavica: The Burning (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The end was in sight in Grbavica, the last and the toughest of the Serbian strongholds, the one that had come to mean sniper, sudden death, for Sarajevo's inhabitants.
		The Duke and his followers had ritualistically marched out the day before, and the rumor was that, as he had promised, today "was going to be the day." The threat was clear.
		In the deserted hallways with graffiti on the wall, whispers of broken English sentences could be overheard being rehearsed: "I don't speak English, but I know to say that I'm afraid." People were hoping for the long-awaited encounter with the guardian angels of IFOR: Italian paratroopers, Indonesian policemen, French gendarmes, American special forces.
	www.pixelpress.org /bosnia/suburbs/grbavica/burning_of_buildings/grbavica_burning.html (197 words)

	Sarajevo
		A Muslim resident of Grbavica watched her district come under Serbian control at the beginning of the attack: "One night at three in the morning...I noticed that all our Serbian neighbors were switching their lights on and off.
		According to T.L. and other witnesses from Grbavica, the radio announcer informed listeners in Grbavica what was in store for them as the JNA and Serbian irregular forces rolled into their neighborhood.
		The Grbavica section of Sarajevo is divided into several quarters; Grbavica I and II are both situated along the Miljacka River.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1994/bosnia3 (16092 words)

	indieWIRE: "Grbavica" Wins Golden Bear At 2006 Berlinale; Winterbotton & Whitecross Win Directing Prize
		Jasmila Zbanic's "Grbavica won the top prize, the Golden Bear, at the 2006 Berlinale, awarded tonight at the festival's closing ceremony in Germany's capital city.
		The film, from Austria and Bosnia & Herzegovina, is the story of a mother and daughter set in post-war Sarajevo.
		Jasmila Zbanic, Grbavica, Berlinale, Charlotte Rampling, Dieter Kosslick, Grbavica, En SoapOffside, Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross, Sandra HÃ¼ller, Moritz Bleibtreu, Jurgen Vogel, Peter Kam, El custodio, En Soap
	www.indiewire.com /ots/2006/02/grbavica_wins_g.html (747 words)

	World-News
		Things were different in Grbavica, which on Tuesday became the last Serb sector to change hands: International and local authorities figured out how to move into anarchic conditions and quickly establish law and order.
		No major incidents have been reported since Grbavica came under the control of the Muslim-Croat federation that is to govern half of postwar Bosnia, U.N. and NATO spokesmen said today and Tuesday.
		But while a similar wave of arson and looting swept Grbavica in the days before it was handed over, the aftermath is much calmer.
	www.christusrex.org /www2/news-old/3-96/ew3-20-96.html (1078 words)

	IFOR : AFSOUTH Transcript of Press Briefing 18 Mar 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Q: Yesterday in Grbavica there were a number of Bosnian Serb army trucks being used, as part of the whole dismantling infrastructure that is taking place there and there are the number of man in what appeared to be Serb army uniform driving the trucks and taking part in those activities.
		As to situation in Grbavica it is tense.
		Janowski: on Grbavica, I spent the night there last night, we had 16 persons in our safe house there, which until yesterday morning was empty.
	www.shape.nato.int /ifor/trans/t960318a.htm (5442 words)

	World-News
		Bezdrob said police would control entry to Grbavica for several days to prevent a repetition of the violence that followed the turnover of the four other Serb suburbs, especially Ilidza.
		Most Serbs have left Grbavica and their other neighborhood enclaves in Sarajevo, saying they can't live securely under the control of their former enemies.
		Franjo Bogdanic, 63, a Croat who lived in Grbavica through the war, said he was so frightened he never left his apartment.
	www.christusrex.org /www2/news-old/3-96/ew3-19-96.html (1164 words)

	WAR'S TOLL IN BOSNIA A RIVER SEPARATES CITY - AND BROTHERS
		At the beginning of the war he ran away from Grbavica, a part of Sarajevo under Serbian control.
		Grbavica is separated from the rest of the city by the river, and that's why the front battle lines are in the buildings nearest to the banks.
		Grbavica is part of it, and I spent almost all my life there, but it is not Sarajevo.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp951018/10180362.htm (930 words)

	January 15, 1996 Vreme News Digest Agency No 223 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		IFOR surrounded and searched the building in Grbavica which they suspected the grenade was launched from and found a spent grenade launcher on its roof (RBR m-80, 64mm).
		Since it's not conceivable that anyone could have gotten to Grbavica from Sarajevo, fired the grenade launcher and then got back unnoticed, the Bosnian Serbs familiar accusations that the Moslems are killing their own people won't help.
		That won't be easy; the deadline is January 19 when the BSA has to leave the parts of Sarajevo that will go to the Federation; after that the Serb police, armed only with hand guns, will be allowed to stay for another 45 days before the territory goes to the Moslems.
	www.scc.rutgers.edu /serbian_digest/223/t223-2.htm (787 words)

	IFOR : AFSOUTH Transcript of Press Briefing 19 Mar 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Grbavica for example the Commissioner estimates, according to the information he has from his people, that there are approximately 3000 Serbs still living in Grbavica.
		But some of them decided to kill people even after they left and the place is very dangerous, there are mines, booby traps everywhere and all people who are returning to their flats are cautioned to do it with the federal police.
		Also Grbavica is the smaller area, Ilidza is a rural area with little hamlets here and there and is probably physically much more difficult to patrol Ilidza then it is to patrol Grbavica.
	www.shape.nato.int /ifor/trans/t960319a.htm (5950 words)

	IFOR : AFSOUTH Transcript of Press Briefing 13 Mar 1996
		In relation to the policing of Grbavica certainly we are increasing our numbers and have increased our numbers there over the last number of days.
		The Serb police in Grbavica have opted out to those very, very substantially in what their duty is, and we have also increased our numbers accordingly.
		Another rape was reported to us last weekend and yet another woman told us that she had her apartment broken into and everything taken out at night.
	www.nato.int /ifor/trans/t960313a.htm (6024 words)

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