Gorazde 1995 Today

📌 Lesson: Survival isn't luck. It's the will to defend, a geography that favors the brave, and a world that finally watches.

Goražde 1995: The Safe Area That Survived

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July 1995. The hills around Goražde were on fire. gorazde 1995

Today, the Drina flows green again. But every bridge in town is a memorial.

Goražde, summer '95 – a masterclass in survival against all odds.

Today, Goražde is a quiet, rebuilt city. But the bullet holes on its riverfront buildings still whisper the story of the summer of '95—when a small town refused to become a footnote in genocide. 📌 Lesson: Survival isn't luck

By mid-1995, Goražde was one of six UN "Safe Areas" established by the UNPROFOR mission. But unlike Srebrenica and Žepa, which fell to Bosnian Serb forces that July, Goražde held the line.

I’ve stared at the photos from that summer—men with rifles older than their fathers, women lining up for water under sniper fire. The UN called Goražde a "Safe Area." But there is no safety in a cauldron.

We talk about the wars of the 1990s as a tragedy of inaction. Goražde is the exception that proves the rule: The hills around Goražde were on fire

What strikes me about Goražde '95 isn't just the horror. It's the defiance. Even as the noose tightened, they built a hospital underground. They printed their own currency. They refused to leave.

By July '95, Bosnian Serb forces wanted to "cleanse" it. But NATO bombs finally fell. The siege broke.