| 1. | PROLOGUE |
| 2. | BACKGROUND |
| 3. | SURVIVAL MAP |
| 4. | MAPPED SITES |
| 4.1. | Airport |
| 4.2. | Brewery |
| 4.3. | Bridges |
| 4.4. | Cemeteries |
| 4.5. | City Bakery |
| 4.6. | City Hall (National Library) |
| 4.7. | Dangerous Zones |
| 4.8. | Elektroprivreda Building |
| 4.9. | Gardens |
| 4.10. | Holiday Inn Hotel |
| 4.11. | Hospitals |
| 4.12. | Markale Market |
| 4.13. | Markets |
| 4.14. | Maternity Hospital |
| 4.15. | National Museum |
| 4.16. | National Theater |
| 4.17. | Olympic Museum |
| 4.18. | Oslobođenje Building |
| 4.19. | Parks |
| 4.20. | Post Office |
| 4.21. | Presidency Building |
| 4.22. | Protection |
| 4.23. | Radio-Television Building |
| 4.24. | Railway Station |
| 4.25. | Snipers |
| 4.26. | Tobacco Factory |
| 4.27. | Transportation |
| 4.28. | Tunnel |
| 4.29. | UNPROFOR (the United Nations Protection Forces) |
| 4.30. | Zetra Olympic Hall |
| 5. | PERCEPTIONS |
| 6. | MACRO STORIES |
| 7. | REFERENCES |
The Siege of Sarajevo 1992-96 AHEAD OF FEAR The Art of Survival #2 |
| 1. | PROLOGUE |
| 2. | BACKGROUND |
| 3. | SURVIVAL MAP |
| 4. | MAPPED SITES |
| 4.1. | Airport |
| 4.2. | Brewery |
| 4.3. | Bridges |
| 4.4. | Cemeteries |
| 4.5. | City Bakery |
| 4.6. | City Hall (National Library) |
| 4.7. | Dangerous Zones |
| 4.8. | Elektroprivreda Building |
| 4.9. | Gardens |
| 4.10. | Holiday Inn Hotel |
| 4.11. | Hospitals |
| 4.12. | Markale Market |
| 4.13. | Markets |
| 4.14. | Maternity Hospital |
| 4.15. | National Museum |
| 4.16. | National Theater |
| 4.17. | Olympic Museum |
| 4.18. | Oslobođenje Building |
| 4.19. | Parks |
| 4.20. | Post Office |
| 4.21. | Presidency Building |
| 4.22. | Protection |
| 4.23. | Radio-Television Building |
| 4.24. | Railway Station |
| 4.25. | Snipers |
| 4.26. | Tobacco Factory |
| 4.27. | Transportation |
| 4.28. | Tunnel |
| 4.29. | UNPROFOR (the United Nations Protection Forces) |
| 4.30. | Zetra Olympic Hall |
| 5. | PERCEPTIONS |
| 6. | MACRO STORIES |
| 7. | REFERENCES |
The Siege of Sarajevo 1992-96 AHEAD OF FEAR The Art of Survival #2 |
4.13.
Markets
"There has not been a single market in Sarajevo which was not the sight of a massacre."
All through the siege the city markets were operating. There one could buy all sorts of edible and less edible plants and homegrown teas. Also, the humanitarian aid was sold and traded there, like “Truman eggs” (the powdered eggs which had been stored since WW II), cigarettes, etc. The markets were the aggressors’ favourite target and a great number of Sarajevo citizens got killed or maimed there. There has not been a single market in Sarajevo which was not the sight of a massacre. The markets were the only places where Sarajevans could buy some food. Late in the summer of 1995 some protected street-corners were promoted into markets.
© FAMA Collection Visual Archives, Željko Puljić
Sarajevo citizens: In their own words
“For a bar of chocolate which today costs about half a mark and which you couldn’t get then, you could get those necessary provisions, like for instance 5 or 6 meat cans that could tie you over for a week with rice or noodles.”
- Mustafa-Braco Šalaka, Economist
“It was an exceptional, awful time, when you couldn’t get a penny for your car, whether it was a BMW or something else, because nobody needed it. Or you could get for something that in the peacetime used to cost 4 or 5 German marks some 80 or 1000 marks like for instance a bundle of photocopying paper.”
- Hasib Salkić, Secretary general if the Liberal Party
“Then the value of the goods that were there, that is, their prices would fall and it was salvation for us when a convoy came. Not only that we got some of the food that was intended for us, something at the market for smaller, a bit smaller prices, that even then were sky-high. And the supply at the market wasn’t big either.”
- Borka Cerić, Housewife
Video Oral History: The Siege of Sarajevo 1992-96 (© FAMA Collection, 1997-99.)