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In ..Wake.

Croatia ..&

Bosnia 1994

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Winter, early 1994.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the artificial nation of Yugoslavia began to refragment into its once-separate nation-states, a process complicated by old, smouldering hatreds between a mix of Serbian Christian and Muslim populations. As warring groups sought to re-draw the Balkan map, action and reaction quickly fulminated into what became known as "ethnic cleansing" campaigns in some of the former Yugoslavian states, backed by the better-armed and prepared Serbs. Fearing a re-enactment of World War II's priming explosion in the Balkans, during breaks in the fighting the United Nations and many relief organizations brought men and women in to help in the dangerous humanitarian work of assisting refugees, separating combatants and attempting to hold together a civilization rapidly decaying into chaos.

These are excerpts from the journal of one American who decided to offer his skills, and risk his life, in that daunting task.

Larry Ledlow

Croatia & Bosnia 1994:

In Wake of Thunder

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Entire empires reshaped, hegemonies reconstituted.

A terrible series of human storms blowing across the world,

individual lives like raindrops lost in the swirling murk of events

not yet played out even now, in the waning months of

the real millennium year, 2001.

Golesh Atop a mountain outside Prishtina in Kosovo stood an installation where we had some repeaters. Typical working conditions this trip--the results of our tax dollars at work--a smart bomb took care of the base of the 80m radio tower.
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