Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Sep 15, 2026
Let's ReadHOST
And then the UN decided a peacekeeping force should go in to stop it, and that's how we ended up in a place called Sarajevo.
Let's ReadHOST
Being the biggest city in all of Bosnia, it had the highest concentration of people in the whole country living there, and when the war kicked off, it was immediately surrounded by Serbian forces.
Let's ReadHOST
They tried to take the city, but the Serb assault force was massively outnumbered by the Bosnian defenders, so the assault failed.
Let's ReadHOST
And that's when the siege started, and it didn't let up for almost four years.
Let's ReadHOST
By the time we arrived, Sarajevo was one of the most dangerous places on planet Earth.
Let's ReadHOST
There were rocket and mortar barrages, both incoming and outgoing, sniper duels between Serbs and Bosnians, and sometimes both water and power would be shut off for weeks at a time, which made the city smell like an unwashed arse in the summer.
Let's ReadHOST
It was hell on Earth, and it was impossible for your heart not to break for the civilians forced to live there.
Let's ReadHOST
People lost family every single day, like when the Serbs sent a single one hundred and twenty millimeter mortar shell into a crowded marketplace one day.
Carol OffGUEST
Um-
Steve PaikinHOST
Don't forget Bosnia
Carol OffGUEST
... and Bosnia.
Carol OffGUEST
I, while seeing mass graves being opened up, seeing, um, a body of a woman half buried with, I just remember the color of her ski jacket, the elbow sticking out of the earth as they dug her up.
Carol OffGUEST
Uh, bodies hanging on trees in, um, as the swollen rivers from spring receded, and the corpses were there because of the ethnic cleansing.
Greg McKeownHOST
Can you set the picture for us, help us go there for all of us that weren't?
David LandsmanGUEST
Well, I, um, arrived in Belgrade in 1997, so that's after the, uh, the Bosnian War, uh, had, had, had been-- had ended.
David LandsmanGUEST
And it was, uh, at the time or just before, uh, the, the, the first stirrings of what we think of now as the Kosovo conflict of, of 1998, '99.
David LandsmanGUEST
Um, and so, um, I arrived in a, in a, in a, in a, in a city in Belgrade, in a, in a country which was still called Yugoslavia, 'cause the Yugos- Yugoslavia had, had, had begun to split, but Serbia and Montenegro were still together.
Sean HeronHOST
James Reeves reviewed the vampire.
Sean HeronHOST
Uh, these are imported from Bosnia to the United States.
Sean HeronHOST
The prices were pretty crazy, I think then, but since then the retail price of the vampire has dropped to about a grand.
Sean HeronHOST
And looks like they're...
Sean HeronHOST
Bozidar Blagojevich.
Sean HeronHOST
I feel like I'm summoning a fucking demon.
Jeremy PozderacHOST
Well, he's Bosnian, so yes.
Sean HeronHOST
Anyway, uh, looks like there'll be cheaper, uh, upgraded take sites, yada, yada, yada.
Jón Trausti SigurðarsonHOST
No, Mladic.
Jón Trausti SigurðarsonHOST
The, the, um, uh, the Bo- Bosnia Serbian, um-
Aðalsteinn KjartanssonGUEST
Yeah, but there, there was like a special court for the-
Sindri EldonGUEST
I bet you John Malkovich could play him
Aðalsteinn KjartanssonGUEST
Yeah, but they, I think they set up-
Jón Trausti SigurðarsonHOST
...
Jón Trausti SigurðarsonHOST
Bosnia in the '90s
Aðalsteinn KjartanssonGUEST
... like a special court for the-
TimHOST
Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Greece, Croatia, and then I started making my way through the Balkans.
TimHOST
So Croatia into Bosnia, which was incredible country, like probably the most underrated country I've ever been to.
TimHOST
How so? Just stunning scenery, incredible history.
TimHOST
Obviously, Sarajevo was the start of the trigger that started the World War I. Franz Ferdinand getting assassinated there.
TimHOST
And then more recently, the Bosnian War in the 90s, which was just horrific and the biggest...
TimHOST
Genocide since the Jews in World War II.
TimHOST
And to be honest, I knew a little bit, but not much.
LukeHOST
So in a nutshell, eight countries over what time period? About eight weeks?
Amos GoldbergGUEST
The fact is that we have some survivors, even if there was an intention to kill all the Jews in Europe but it did not materialize.
Amos GoldbergGUEST
For example, in one of the cases of genocide in Srebrenica, the courts, the international courts, did not acknowledge the whole assault of the Serbs in Bosnia against the Muslims as a genocide.
Amos GoldbergGUEST
But there was one act that was an act of genocide and that was in Srebrenica in which some 8,000 only men and young boys were slaughtered by the Serbs and the women were expelled.
Amos GoldbergGUEST
So even that was acknowledged, and so they explained that it was a place with a special significance to the existence of the whole group, of the Bosnian group, strategically and otherwise.
Amos GoldbergGUEST
This is why they decided it was reaffirmed by higher institutions.
Amos GoldbergGUEST
in state chambers, or the appeal chambers, it was in various, all courts, that this was an act of genocide.
Nico SteevesHOST
New tensions surfaced.
Nico SteevesHOST
In the western section of Bosnian Herzegovina, for example, in the Herzegovina region, close to the border of Croatia had been one of the most flammable divides.
Nico SteevesHOST
Besides the new ethnic majority that came into power, there remained the leaders of the former federated Yugoslavia who did not want to give up power.
Nico SteevesHOST
They held the keys to the armories and determined to fight their way back to power.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
Now, Augustus was determined not only to consolidate Caesar's earlier conquests by bringing wayward Celtic tribes in the greater Gaul region under Rome's control, but also by pushing the borders of the empire north and east to defensive lines along the River Rhine and River Danube.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
In the north, this would involve conquering much of Germania, while in the south it would require control over regions which the Romans knew as Pannonia, Noricum, and Illyricum, which approximate with the countries of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
When Augustus began this process in the mid-10s BC, he took Tiberius and his younger brother Drusus with him.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
It was an enterprise which Tiberius would engage with in one way or another for several decades.
Peter BerneggerGUEST
After all this stuff came up and then Lestrade was fired, he's a good guy.
Peter BerneggerGUEST
He happens to be on election watch over in Bosnia right now.
Peter BerneggerGUEST
He signed up for a program before with the International Association of something.
Peter BerneggerGUEST
And this guy knew.
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