Sarajevo Roses

""What happened in Sarajevo...it can happen in the middle of Paris. In Rome. It's possible." -Vedran Smailovic, The Cellist of Sarajevo.

Imagine waking up to find society collapsed: stores shuttered, electricity and water shut off, no food or medicine, neighbors become enemies and fighting in the streets.

That was the city of Sarajevo, 8 years after hosting the 1984 Winter Olympic games.