• Some Souvenirs
  • On the April 15th 1941 German forces captured the city of Sarajevo. Their first public action was a ceremonial taking down of the plaque commemorating Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. On the April 20th 1941; the same commemorative plaque was offered to Adolf Hitler as a birthday gift.

    The Peace Ship Galeb was an official yacht of late Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito and it is in many ways a symbol of Non-Aligned Movement which was initiated by J. B. Tito, Jawaharlal Nehru and Gamal Abdel Nasser. In 1991 when Yugoslavia started to fall apart; the yacht was in large part looted, among objects that where taken from the yacht where commemorative plaques honouring the names such as, above mentioned Jawaharlal Nehru and Gamal Abdel Nasser, Haille Selassie, Muammar Gaddafi, Indira Gandhi, Queen Elizabeth II, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Kirk Douglas, Richard Burton, Sophia Loren and Elizabeth Taylor among many.

    On the July 11th 1995 general Ratko Mladić captured the town of Srebrenica, a Bosnian muslim enclave town during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the days after; he and his forces systematically killed more than 8000 men and boys in and around this town, making it the biggest massacre on the European soil since World War 2. One of the first orders that general Mladić gave when he entered the town; was to take down the street plaque with the name of Reuf Selmanagić Crni, a Yugoslav partisan hero from the World War 2. As a souvenir.

    Ibro Hasanovic - Some Souvenirs

    Ibro Hasanovic - Some Souvenirs

    Ibro Hasanovic - Some Souvenirs

    Editing: Ibro Hasanović
    Screening format: .mov
    Duration: 2min 43sec (video loop)
    Color: yes
    Screening ratio: 4:3
    FPS: 25
    Sound: stereo
    Date of production: December, 2019
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