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[https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/4/19/how-the-siege-of-sarajevo-changed-journalism by Kenneth Morrison 19/4/21 ALJAZEERA] | [https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/4/19/how-the-siege-of-sarajevo-changed-journalism by Kenneth Morrison 19/4/21 ALJAZEERA] | ||
The siege lasted 1,425 days, making it the longest siege in modern history, and killed more than 11,000 people. Many of the city’s most important cultural institutions, historical monuments, sporting venues and the wider social and economic infrastructure were destroyed or seriously damaged. Ordinary citizens, already suffering the privations caused by the cutting-off of gas, electricity and water supplies, were not only caught in the crossfire but deliberately targeted by shell and sniper fire. | The siege lasted 1,425 days, making it the longest siege in modern history, and killed more than 11,000 people. Many of the city’s most important cultural institutions, historical monuments, sporting venues and the wider social and economic infrastructure were destroyed or seriously damaged. Ordinary citizens, already suffering the privations caused by the cutting-off of gas, electricity and water supplies, were not only caught in the crossfire but deliberately targeted by shell and sniper fire. | ||
=====REPORTRING AMERICA AT WAR] | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/davis/kit.html by RICHARD HARDING DAVIS PBS] | |||
I am going to try to describe some kits and outfits I have seen used in different parts of the world by travellers and explorers, and in different campaigns by army officers and war correspondents. Among the articles, the reader may learn of some new thing which, when next he goes hunting, fishing, or exploring, he can adapt to his own uses. That is my hope, but I am sceptical. | |||
