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Sniper Alley was fictionally depicted in the film The Peacemaker. Street is featured in Joe Kubert's book Fax from Sarajevo, where it is described as a gauntlet. 1997 war film Welcome to Sarajevo by director Michael Winterbottom includes several scenes and actual footage of snipers harassing residents of the besieged city.
Sniper Alley is the name given during the siege to the broad bouldevard running east-west through the core of Sarajeov from the old town in the east to the airport area in the west. It consists of the streets called Zmaja od Bosne and Meša Selimović.
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Jul 13, 2018 · Twenty five years ago, the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, was subjected to daily shelling and sniper attacks from Serb nationalist forces.
During the siege of Sarajevo, civilians regularly risked their lives crossing the city's main boulevard, which became known as "sniper alley". Hiding in high-rise buildings, gunmen overlooked...
Nov 17, 2021 · The exhibition historically and geographically reconstructs the area in Sarajevo known during the 1992-95 siege as Sniper Alley – the informal name for Zmaja od Bosne Street and Mesa...
Apr 7, 2022 · Bosnian Dzemil Hodzic's search through the backwaters of the Internet for wartime memories of his late brother began with a project he started called Sniper Alley in 2019.
May 3, 2020 · Dzemil Hodzic, 37, is seen in December 2019 in front of Sarajevo’s infamous Holiday Inn on ‘Sniper Alley’, a street that was notoriously dangerous during the siege [Courtesy of Dzemil Hodzic]
