Next week I'm going to upload the entire season as one video with a "finale" attached on the end that wraps it all back together. But for now, here's a bit of pain for your Saturday. Donate if you want us to exist. Watch if you can't: www.patreon.com/rareearth
I love listening to these stories. Learning more about other cultures is fantastic. Really great to listen post anxiety to relax. Keep up the amazing work man.
Thank you Evan - I've been following you and your stories since the Arctic trip and have valued everything you cover - light or dark - but it had to be said that this is one of those darknesses that needs to be remembered and learned from - it doesn't look like we are learning over all but I hope... Your stories give me hope... Your stories that show the world in its many splendoured glory and pain so diverse and so universal that we can celebrate the variety and take comfort from the compatibility. Thank you
In highschool I knew a boy named fuad. He spoke in a really odd manner. Not just because English was his second language, i never would have judged him for that, but because he spoke like a mafia man. Fuad was extremely nice most of the time but also different in a way I didn't understand at the time. Aggressive. Defensive. Trying hard to fit in with the dominant kids around him. More so than normal with teenagers. Later he and I would end up getting our first jobs at the same fast food place and became really good friends. What I didn't understand in highschool was that he had literally learned English from a copy of Scarface they had in his old village. None of us ever knew how old he was when he moved to the US, we just figured his parents were very traditional and didn't speak much English raising him here. We called him Yugo half the time and he liked the nickname. None of us knew anything about Yugoslavia. I didn't understand why he might have been overly defensive in school until we were friends later.. Spending time in a friend's basement, under the influence, he told us stories he had always kept to himself. Stories about how he and couple family members were all that were left alive. Stories about how his dad had been forced to escape the country on his own and find work, leaving him with his grandmother in order to protect them and to later be able to afford to get them out. Stories about every single other person he once knew being dead. Stories about men coming down the street they lived on throwing grenades thru the windows of every single house. Stories about his grandmother picking him up and turning the heavy kitchen table over on top of them both when it was finally their window that a grenade came thru. I still don't know what to say, other than that Fuad is one of the nicest and most important people I will have ever met in my life growing up here in the Midwest of America.
this made me cry harder than the video itself. man, fuck, humans can really suck sometimes. makes me feel guilty for surviving honestly, when so many of my family have been killed as well. it's hell out there. but the fact that your friend was able to keep moving forward does give me a bittersweet twinge in my chest. i don't really have the words, i guess.
He didn't just survive. He is, by normal american standards, far far more successful now than myself and many of of us who used to hang out together, all of us who had such an easy start in life compared to him.
zechs black You are Dick (no disrespect here)you just made me cry 😢 because I am also from Bosnia 🇧🇦 and I know All what happened there,, I was also thrown out of my home,property everything was burned to the ground or bombarded..Land mines everywhere still in the ground,,And now I have to live in Fokken Canada 🇨🇦 which I am grateful for,Canada is nice but I had my Country,my Home 🏡 my family,my friends,my people..That’s why your Friend was Fuad behaving like that..Now you know,if you see Fuad say Hi 👋 to him,,as for you Have a nice day Sir...
Anyone confused by the ending, they were robbed at gun point by people likely pretending to be police officers. Evan posted about it on the 21st June 2019 on his Twitter
My brother went over there with a group called "Convoy of hope" from the UK in 1993. He is a diesel fitter and mechanic, so it was his task to keep the trucks running. He couldn't believe what he found, as he described it "people no different to himself who had absolutely nothing left". One group they delivered aid to were so grateful they insisted that they couldn't accept gifts (tents, clothing and food) without giving something in return, they gave my brother a small wooden handmade cigarette holder. He's still got it.
That's was really nice. If only the uk Government and french, at that time weren't following a problem of appeasement! Things could have ended alot sooner. Less bloodshed and Bosnia wouldn't be so fucked up, like it is today!!!
The Argentinian Forensic Anthropology Team helped digging out the mass graves in Bosnia and figuring the identity of the civilian victims of ethnic cleansing. They are the same people who helped to find out the place of many bodies from people kidnapped and murdered by the death squads of the last Argentinian dictatorship (1976-1983). Their work in other countries is a strange source of pride, as it means our communities are linked in some way by tragedy. You made a great work with this series. The Balkans and its people are a really beutiful and interesting. Glad you are fine
@CAVKING19DELTA TEXAS uh get over it you pussy buhu kosovo is serbija who cares. people in kosovo care and you in serbia should just mind your own business. according to you maybe even switzerland would belong to serbija
Croat here. I’m sorry you had such bad time in our countries man. But great videos nevertheless. The war in yugoslavia was far too complex for just five episodes, but I think you covered it well. Thanks for showing the world a part of our history.
Hey maybe you can explain to me, he makes a comment that the Serbs wanted some kind of revenge for something that happened long before, not that I would ever consider it justification, but for pure historical curiosity, do you know what is he talking about?
@@raimonestanol8234 he’s talking about world war two, where Croatia had a German puppet regime with concentration camps, killing native jews, serbs and roma, among others. While the regime by no means represented the will of the Croatian people, it is still a shameful part of our history.
I am a NATO and UN Peace Keeping Veteran from Canada, that was in Bosnia. The 5 episodes you did was a reminder of places I have been, along with the horrors that Mankind can inflict on to each other, whether be for selfish or greed, and the worst, disillusion. When I returned back to Canada, I seriously re-thought my life, and the experience made me realize how lucky I was a Canadian.
@@ilijabosnjak76 well they did stop it whenever they could. Medak comes in mind for example. However they could only do so much before they would go from peacekeepers to actively involved army. You people just loved to massacre each other. Enjoying it so much you even imported and welcomed Mujahedeens to do it while Serbians had their weekend warriors doing it for fun as well. Bosnia is a clusterfuck of a country... always was. And knowing that you people wanted to break away with a referendum although an important part of the people didn't want to have anything with it. Here is a smart idea... Let's just ignore them. Referendums only work in homogeneous society but you went with it anyway fully knowing what will happen but thinking that Ottomans or Tito or someone will rise up to protect and enforce your will. But yes, it is this random Canadians fault that he was there with UN trying to unfuck the unfuckable.
uporabn1k No We common people didn't want the war,,I was in Sarajevo 1992 when snipers started shootings at us..It was our stupid politicians and Global agenda to dissolve Yugoslavia..It was artificial creation in the first place and real Tito wasn't even real Tito..I love ❤️ my country but it's a piece of Shit,but it's sad that so many people died because of dumb idiots..
@@ilijabosnjak76 well, maybe you didn't want war, but I don't know what other thought. 63% of people came to vote for independence; Serbs didn't vote. It was obvious what would happen if Bosnia leaves SFRJ in this way yet 99% voted to leave. And politicians didn't care to consolidate with the Serbs. People voted themselves into war doesn't matter if they wanted it or not.
My father served at Srebrenica, as part of Dutchbat. He doesn't speak much about it, likely never will, but he has made one thing clear. That was a disgrace and a stain on the honour of the Dutch military, the Dutch government and the United Nations. We promised to protect those people, and we didn't, and their deaths are our responsibility.
@@yuslaven89 power or no power, it's utterly disgraceful to turn your back while those you were supposed to protect are being slauthered. Besides there are well documented cases of horrible, condescending and outright racist behaviour by dutch soldiers towards the bosnians in Srebrenica (including in the museum whose sign appears towards the beginning of the video).
@@yuslaven89 If you think like that, then why they even were there? They only had one job, to protect civilians. And they failed. Cowardice or ineptness, whatever... It's not that someone from this part of the world points a finger at them, but it's on their own to recognize and feel the guilt. That's the only honorable thing to do.
The raw anger in your voice almost brought me to tears. The sheer brutality of that war is something I hope to never have to experience and I do not wish on anyone.
Kosta M. Who the fuck can watch this video and come out of it thinking “oh, ethnic nationalism is a fantastic idea! Multiculturalism sucks!”. And mind you, I say this as someone who would unabashedly describe himself as a *civic* nationalist
@@mzple Kosta is a deeply troubled person, and it is sad but 1 or 5 videos wont change their racist mind, i bet they just watched the whole thing and came out wishing no survivors had come out of the massacres.
"Ethnic nationalism is the lowest form of nationalism, because it doesn't stop until everyone is in their corners burying their dead, again and again and again." Amen.
but yeah let's mix ethnic nationalism with jingoism that sure how can we destroy western civilization without destroying what makes the european people stand together for their nation and family
1:06 That is the memorial for the children of Sarajevo who were killed during the Siege, 1992-1995. I was there last summer, just walking aimlessly, as I like to do in a foreign city. It took me awhile to gather what this thing represented, because it looked beautiful. On the side, not visible in the video, there are seven pillars with the names of the children written on them. On my way there, I remembered, I saw a house with its side opposite to the hills in the south riddled with bullet holes, as if the Siege ended yesterday, and I remembered that before that, in those hills, I walked past a football game in a street there attended by a new generation children. I haven´t thought anything specific, much less something profound. I just felt sadness, but also hope for the future. Please, let´s make sure this will never happen again. Thank you for the video, and all the best from Prague, Czech Republic.
I'm sorry, but it is very probable that such things will happen again and again ... until stopped for good by the workers' power, under communism. Take communism away, what do you get? Nothing but civil and plain wars. Because war benefits the fat cats ... I cross my heart for China's future, for example ... I remember in Albania, 1991, communism was thrown away and a few weeks later already, some feud murders were again committed, the first ones after 1945.
Perfect, after watching this I can watch the entire series again, just to get a second view on the astonishingly interesting and moving history of Yugoslavia. And to pick up all the details I missed the first time. Thank you Evan for bringing us these stories nobody else wanted to talk about. Please never stop doing that.
I'll tell you man, as a Croat from eastern Croatia having lived my childhood in a war.. my city was encircled from the north, east and south by Serb paramilitaries and the YPA for more than 5 years. It still weighs heavy over all of our lives, the people who lived through it as civilians. Thank you for this series.
I made it to Sarajevo this summer and I have to say that I have never been to a place like that ever before. I am not sure I can even describe it properly. There is too much history in this place. Horrible history. Every time I climbed up a more or less high hill and looked down, there were those thin, snow-white marble gravestones scattered throughout the city. Everywhere. It seemed that not a single photoshot could be taken in the city without one of those endless cemeteries in the background. It felt so terrible. It was scary. Genuinely scary. The city is so beautiful, but everything you see are those gravestones with amazing decorations and names. Hundreds of names of young people with the same year of death. Bulletholes. 'Roses of Sarajevo' painted red. And that is probably the most tragic part of the story: the war is over, but life is not. The dead cannot be returned, and former enemies you can't (and never will) forgive stand next to you in a queue, waiting for fresh bread. And you have nothing left but to accept it. I can't imagine living in that city now. If I had to carry on living there, I would have probably gone mad. Thank you very much for this video. Rare Earth indeed.
The pure emotion in this video has made it a work of art. One that I very much did not enjoy watching, you can't enjoy something this dark, yet it has power, it has the raw and angry power this topic deserves. Thank you for making this video.
@@malizlato Normally his presentation is very neutral and I much prefer that. I really disliked his tone in this one, so emontional, not pleasant to listen to.
Hey saw the description I glad your ok and hopefully this dosen't shake you or your crew to much and you bounce back fast good luck to you and your crew
In the early 2000s we got new neighbors from bosnia. The oldest son was the same age as me. I never understood why he was so different till my parents told me about the war there. I heard him cry and scream through many nights and could never understand what he had to go through
I can’t thank you enough for this series. I spent a semester studying Central and Eastern Europe. This was in 1993. What happened to Yugoslavia following my classes still haunts me. Enough so, that I’m headed there next week. This series couldn’t have been more timely. Nice work!
Do you have the notificaiton bell clicked? Aside from parsing through all of your subscriptions, that is the only way to force youtube to show you stuff.
You could really sense your emotion in this last episode. I enjoyed this series very much. (not the killing but the way you told it.) Such a beautiful country brought to such ruin because of a few maniacs.
I've never felt a connection to a city until I've started to learn about the siege Sarajevo. Living and growing up in Serbia in the '90s nobody ever talked about the siege, mostly because nobody knew, slowly in the 2000 the voices started tho creep in to the mainstream. Newspaper articles, testemonials... I remember listening to a radio show, and this woman Mima Vuković-Kurić talked about her expirience of the siege, I cried like a baby for an hour. I felt shame. That my countryman could do such things, and be celebrated here like fucking heroes. When I first came to Sarajevo I fell in love the moment I steped out of the bus. Then I cried again, and again. A (soon to be)grown man, walking around a city crying at every corner. Ofcourse it was not the city itself that made me fall for it's charms, it was THE RAJA! I know that things will never be the same, some say that "Raja iz Saraj'va" no longer exist, I tend to disagree. Pozdrav za raju i sve dobre ljude, jebem ti rat, da ti jebem, opet ću se rasplakati...
You're reaction is one of the reasons why I wish we would stop referring to Serbs or Croats but rather Chetniks or Oustachis. It's an unjust simplification because not all Serbs or Croats where part of this and many fought against those fascists. This is coming from a non Yougoslave who was deeply involved with the defence of Sarajevo. Peace and justice require truths however complexe they are !
I've never seen you angrier, and I feel this energy so much in this video. Thank you for bringing a new form of understanding to this war for someone who never really began to grasp it, and now does even less so. War should not be understood.
Evan, this is an absolutely fantastic series of essays. Thank you for sharing not just the facts, but the humanity of it all. The human element. Thank you.
I had the plates pulled on my car a few years back. I called for a tow truck, loaded the car, and on the ride back with the driver him and I began to talk. For a tow truck driver - he was the most soft spoken, polite, and humble one I could imagine. He was a teenager during these years and lived nearby Sarajevo. I was aware of the conflict, and the complex history of the region. As we got deeper into our conversation he divulged into the atrocities he remembered, specifically the soldiers going house to house, systematically murdering the families around him. He remembers the night his father took the family into the forest with their tents and camping supplies. They left in the evening at dusk, and hiked most of the night. When returning a week later, they were met with the partially burned corpses of their neighbours, strewn across the front yards of their own houses. If I recall correctly his family fled to other regions of Bosnia, before moving to Canada.
Thank you, for making this video. I found this video very thought-provoking but that was the only thought I want to post is a thank you for telling/sharing some of the harder to swallow story, as often they are the most important...impactful even.
I'm a Belgrader and I recently visited, and was fairly shocked, by Sarajevo. The war as a whole, I can wrap my head around, but I will never understand the siege. I have seen the bullet holes and the ruins. An even more pointless waste of human life than is usual for wars. In horribly pragmatic terms, nothing to be gained but bad publicity. And, I guess, a satiation of blood-thirst. There was nothing wrong said in the video, but what pains me as a Serb is that I have heard this side of the story very, very many times, and the whole world knows it, and then everyone conveniently omits the hardship of the Serbs, or, indeed, any culpability on part of the leaders of the other sides in the conflict. Yeah, I get that it wasn't meant to be objective or look at all sides, the story is valid. The problem is that we already have this kind of reporting. A lot of it. And as such, it is the opposite of what I've come to expect from Rare Earth.
What hardships of the Serbs are you talking about? He mentioned the hardships of Serbs in relation to the Ustashe regime back in WW2 and he openly named Pavelic as a war criminal. I didn't see your protest on that video? In this video, he focused on the real victims of the 90s war - the Bosnians.
I was born in the US in Dec of 2001 and as an adult now learning this, I can say holy shit. I knew of the mess in the 90s in Yugoslavia, but this really puts the horror in my soul about how bad this really was
So you just turned 18? No offense (really!) but despite the US considering you an adult in some senses(they'll happily send you off to war, or to prison for life) the human brain doesn't finish development until about 26. My advice is not to be in a hurry to be an adult. I'd give anything to be your age again, and despite being old enough to be your parent, I've never seen myself as an adult, and I hope I never will.
the problem in the Balkans are reciprocal fear structures the peoples have built up in themselves against the other peoples there resulting in no one wanting to be a minority in any one area because as a minority you believe you are at risk --> for example, Serbs of BiH wanting to remain in a union with Serbia in the early 90's would be seen by Serbs as a centuries long struggle to be free and united with other Serbs but on the other hand, will be seen as simply the threat of Greater Serbian aspirations by Croats and Bosniaks… a centralised BiH or de-centralised BiH but decentralised on economic centres rather than along ethnic lines will be seen by Bosniaks as inherently democratic and reasonable for a prosperous nation moving forward but Serbs and Croats will see it as a prelude to Muslim domination due to their demographics and which will see Serbs and Croats - constituent peoples of BiH - becoming minorities in their own land suffering what they must by the dictates of Sarajevo which all leads to a very unfortunately conclusion --> there is no real solution to the problems in Bosnia... they are all going to just playing over and over again
@@98091238 Yeah, I know, it is complicated. None of the sides is putting themselves in the other side's shoes either (and it is a three sided problem to boot)
I disagree. The real monster was every last pathetic, spineless excuse of a male who fired a weapon at those civilians. The clerks who sent them pay. The quartermasters who sent them ammo. The family members who honored them and treated them with respect. Each one of them are the real monsters- an angry man who people refuse to follow is just that, an angry man.
Out of 83% who voted at the referendum for Croatian independence, 95% wanted out of Yugoslavia.... What the hell are you talking about...Yugoslavia was doomed from the start only iron fist of Tito held it together by brute force..
I recently got fired from my job, but after watching your videos, it gives me inspiration to do what I want to do, so maybe it's a new fresh start? I don't know, but as soon as I get a new job I'll contribute on Patreon for sure. Godspeed!
"I'm not at all happy with how this video turned out. It has so much unachieved potential. But men tried to murder me just a few hours before I shot this and Francesco was traumatized and had to go home immediately, taking the only remaining camera with him. So I did what I could in the hours I was given. In a way, it was cathartic. " What the everloving fuck?
People getting tired of his filosofy way of telling, he dont look to the invidual but only as the people as a whole, so they looked at him as a people as a whole(a rich american) bye taking a gun and aiming it on him as a indivual and taking his camera Now some indivual has more money, money to spend at other shops witch make thier country as a whole a better place
As a person born with the grenades of Nato bombing near my window i would say this is not the end of this series. The crimes did not end in a civil war in Bosnia, it engulfed the whole of Yugoslavia and in the end USA pulled the plug and violated UN agreements when they launched operation Merciful Angel. 78 Days of hell where USA and other Nato allies bombed everything, they didn't care about the military or the war crimes soldiers committed. They wanted to see a country burn, the power hungry capitalists wanted to see a once communist country destroyed. So they bombed everything, everything that moved or didn't move, bridges, hospitals, tv stations, factories everything. They set the country of Serbia back to the stone age. A nation half across the world in the name of Mercy killed civilians, women and children and couldn't care less because they were nothing more than a dot on their planes 10.000 meters up in the sky. In those 78 days Nato showcased their weaponry to the potential buyers in the world. Every single thing they can use at that point they did, just to see how effective it is. From weapons that have been stockpiled since ww2 to the modern state of the art "poor" uranium shells. They intentionally hit oil stations and chemical factories spilling all of the toxic by-products directly into the water both underground and overground. Effectively poisoning the soil for generations to come. Someone in the comments mentioned how they were in the Bosnian war as part of the "peace" mission and how they are happy to be back home. That is the problem, a civil war is atrocious but the people there are fighting for their beliefs, there are no right sides except in their own minds, and in the end they still have to live there right next to the place where they once waged war. But there is no excuse for people thousands of miles away to come, destroy everything and then talk about how lucky they are to be living in a peaceful country. Every war is evil beyond comprehension but people need to understand just because you are up high and mighty above those in the mud it doesn't give you the right to destroy everything and still have a peaceful sleep...
Well if it isn't the consequences of your actions. Nato didn't kill civilians, not even a 10th of what serbs killed in kosovo, they targeted economic and military structures, fuck off with your self victimization, the serb nationalists started all of the yugoslav wars, they lost all of them, then they got pissy and started genociding civilians. After all of that they got their military bases and economic structures rightfully fucked by america and now you whine like a dog and victimize yourself, serbia got what was coming to it, no more, no less.
@bmetr1 I am sorry that you feel that way. But the point here is that we were all manipulated for the benefit of others. It breaks my heart that even a single person has died in this war, I might have not been alive at that exact moment but I wish I could change your opinion about my country. From everyone I had contact with not a single person has had negative feelings or hatred towards any other country including Bosnia. Our government doesn't represent our people and that is why we have brought down Milošević regime and it looks like we might have to do it again. My advice to you as one person to another is don't look at statistics and propaganda, no one ever deserved to die or to suffer. I wish you all the best
If they bombed Serbia as they bombed Germany, perhaps You would wake up and would not support anymore this nationalist Nazis which are still in power in Serbia. You speek about 78 days of Bombing, what about Years of bombing of Sarajevo. Just one thing: If Serbs have used stones instead of granates than Sarajevo would be 10 meters covered with stones, so many granates they have shot on this city...
@@rihadcizmo5501 Nobody supports the regime here but the fact is even the dead get up to vote. But don't worry everyone is leaving here, a few years more we will be covered in stones of time, as nobody will be left to clear them.
As someone who spend summers in Bosnia where my relatives lived I can only say that my experience was great, great people! I lived in neighboring republic that saw the rise of opportunist who played on the lowest in humans, within a few years from normal society all scum surfaced since the opportunist provided them with opportunity to go to war against neighbors to steal and kill under nationalist banner. As French phylosopher Renan stated a nationalist is one who do not know his/her history and hate neighbors . Your episode about San Marino evoked great thinking of their leader of the time when replied to Napoleon, empires come and go but neighbors are eternal. Within that time society decayed rapidly and war became reality. Today remnants and "upgrades" of these "smradovi" as we call it (english does not provide adequate translation although some will point out as stinkers but meaning is much deeper and darker) are still ruling and there is no end in the sight. Criminals are front runners with a fame and place in the upper society, the cool people. Just remember, every country with inept and malicious leaders and politicians can bring normal country to chaos within a span of a few years. Good series!
Your profile pic has the Croatian chessboard on it, but your comment might as well be about our own smradovi in Serbia... I don't think the rest of Europe is that much better than us but Balkan sure is a cursed peninsula.
@@djdjukic Pozdrav, komentar se odnosi na sve one sovinisticke licnosti koje su putem rata se obogatili te i dalje sede na istim pozicijama samo pod drugim imenom. S obzirom da sam otisao pred rat ali sam proziveo 25 godina u socijalistickoj Jugoslaviji imao sam priliku iz prve ruke da vidim sta ce uslediti. Ja im porucujem tada nismo znali sta smo imali ali danas znaju sta su izgubili, sedam jadnih drzava koje su zavisne od drugih i u kojima vlastodrsci su upravnici tudjinu jer su sve resurse rasprodali vani. Nazalost, ne samo Evropa nego i Amerika i ono sto se desilo u Jugoslaviji doci ce i do ovih napomenutih u skoroj buducnosti. Sve najbolje!
Even if the video didn’t hit its full potential, I’m still happy that you finished what you started and I hope that everyone in the crew is alright after everything.
You often move me with your incredible stories, but rarely am I crying while commenting. I remember feeling so fecking helpless at that time. I wasn't anyone who had a connection there, I wasn't in the military, I was just human. I remember hearing about the civilians, especially the children, when I had small children myself. I hated those who harmed them - on whatever side. I blamed the UN for not doing enough. But when it came down to it, it was those who started it all off who should take the lion's share of the blame and if they're still alive, suffer for it. I read your story below the video. I hope you and Francesco are doing well. I am not even going to pretend to understand what that feels like except to think that it must have been bloody horrific. Don't think that this wasn't the right way to tell this story, Evan, it was perfect. Don't change a thing. Don't wish you could change a thing. You told the actual story - the one that matters. Much love to you and Francesco. Hope you're back out there soon and opening our eyes to yet more of the world's often hidden history.
I was a kid then, my home town Belgrade, Serbia wasn't directly afected by war and my parents tried not to talk about it, but I watched it all on tv. We lived a hard life under sanctions and whenever I saw shooting star I first wished to have chocolate or spmething like that, but I regreted it immediately for being so selfish, wish of all wishes was for war in Bosnia to end.
@Rare Earth (Evan) Thank you for spending your precious time on this short documentation. And thank you for visiting Sarajevo. Let's just hope people would finally be civilized in the future no matter in which god someone believes or what race and so on. It's a very high goal but let's aim for something high, shall we.
That video was perfect. Every nationalist, anywhere, needs it played on loop to them, until they realise the ultimate destination of their ideology. I like learning about and studying wars. My "favourites" are The conflict in SE Asia/Vietnam War, and the American Civil War. I study and read about others too, but nothing quite tears at my heart, and makes me despair like the Yugoslav War. There is something about the shear senselessness and medieval brutality of that war, combined with the lethality and destructive power of modern day weapons, that makes it so much more disturbing than any other war, IMO. Anyhow, real glad you didn't get shot, like. I remember you posting up on Twitter about getting robbed. This series has been well worth your effort, though, I think. Keep up the good work.
The SE Asian conflict (Indonesian here), include the regime of Soeharto are notoriously economical wrecker (although i can blaming his kids or i wil disappear), especially when the Cold War still ongoing. Lots of poverty, rejecting communism ideology, and the glory of the food is a myth, it only glorified the rice back then. Man, i can see that the Yugoslav are deadlier than what's wrong in my country since most of them including killing eachother's life.
There's no educating a nationalist. The only way to do it is to make it illegal and prevent any nationalist from ever becoming involved with governing societies.
I celebrate your effort to create thoughtful videos with impartial analysis of historical events from the viewpoint of the forgotten people directly affected by them. We tend to look at history from a focus tainted by religious, political ideologies, or our own biases that makes us complicit in allowing the same vicious cycles to continue dividing us. It is unfortunate that filming a video will put your life in peril and appreciate your efforts to add to the human narrative!
This was a great series. Made me stop and think. It is easy to learn about a far away event in news clips or books but this put a more human face on it. Keep up the great work.
I will never not appreciate you guys making these videos. Every time I watch a Rare Earth video it activates my brain, gives me something to think about. Videos like that are rare nowadays.
Its an incredible movie... One that taught a 16 y/o me more about what happened there, and just the condition of mankind and the desperate hopeless situations we will put others we dont even know in, for the pettiest of reasons Watch it, to feel ashamed of everything The war, the media, the "peacekeepers" and mostly for to be reminded of all those the world was robbed from meeting
I asked the son of a Croatian soldier how he felt about the other countries after the split. He hold no anger or hatred towards anyone, even if you told him “this man shot at you”, he wouldn’t care. It’s rarely the will of the people.
Croat here, i can't agree that most people wanted Yugoslavia to stay together, at least not in Dalmatia because we had always felt closer to countries like Italy and wanted freedom. but i feel like you covered the topic really well and you didn't pick sides with one group or the other. thanks for representing our regions history. Especially since its such a difficult, and multi-sided one.
Hey Evan, not sure what you guys encountered but just wanted to say I root for you. Hope you're all safe and feeling better. Thank you for sharing your understandings of this Rare Earth.
An excellent achievement in making what can so often be otherwise a footnote in history, vividly depicted without visceral violence. I appreciate it that you topped it so well, with unfettered expression to something as terrible, but so tragically common, that one may often be forgiven to forget; "something like this can happen to all of us"
Thank you. Lest we never forget. As a child living 1500km away, this was in the news every day. It seeped into my mind. The stories, pictures and videos of the aftermath that surfaced will never leave me. Only recently have I come to the realisation of the full extent of this war that has haunted my childhood. I can only imagine the fear and horror from the other side of the little television we had at home.
Damn we could see the emotions pouring from your body, Terrifying you were robbed at gunpoint but the fact that you decided to roll with the emotions was A+. Even if you didnt the video would have been A+ anyways. Stay safe out there!
Very sad and open minding series, it's something you can never heard about, unless someone who have been there tell the story. Great video, great job man
I'm Canadian, but I lived in a small town in New Zealand from 1992 until 1998, where I finished high school (in 1995). My high school's computing teacher there resigned in 1994, to travel to the Balkans, to teach UN support personnel how to use computers. I caught up with him a couple years later, after he'd returned to New Zealand. One of the things he said that's stuck with me the most is that running network cables was so easy, because every building was shot full of holes. I've retold this story, as an amusing anecdote, many times in the last 25 years, and... through no fault of Rare Earth's... now I want to puke, feeling like the full weight of that insensitivity has just landed on me at once.
This was chilling in a way a lot of documentaries on the same subject are not. Evan, you might think you should be unhappy with how this turned out, but I'm wiping away tears and that's not something I often do.
This finale is full of rage. And sadness. Years ago I read a book about this war. It left me shocked. Srebrenica was the worst. Thank you for all the serie👏👏
The narrative of history is simultaneously more gorgeous and hellish than any work of fiction. The complete desecration of humanity I have graciously never experienced is terrifying beyond belief. May the Yugoslavs rest in peace. May the Bosnians rest in peace. May all those who have been stripped of their humanity and cast brutally cast into indiscriminate hell rest in peace.
Hey RareEarth, thanks for a great channel! I totally agree with what you've said in this episode, but in the same time, paradoxically, I disagree. Even when telling only the truth the result can be misleading because some omissions... I will not tell you what omissions were... I will challenge you to find some Sarajevo videos before the war and compare to your video (hint: look at the people not architecture). Anyway congrats for a great job and keep going!
Fantastic video, well made and superbly narrated. I am sorry you had an unfortunate and barbaric experience during making of your great documentary. For your work I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Please be safe.
This is a fantastic series. More engaging and informative than any text or documentary I've seen. As a second-generation Yugoslavian immigrant, trying to understand the history and politics is pretty difficult with your common history book. Big thumbs up and thanks
I have been to both Sarajevo and Belgrade. These cities have such an important yet complicated history and culture for the region. From the roman empire, to the ottoman empire, to Yugoslavia, to finally the breakup. I know its complicated but I think more people should learn about this or at least be familiar with it. Thank you for posting this.
They held the cultures and people together by force, not love. Some learned to love, but you can not force true love. Under the surface the hatred festered and boiled. Until it blew up.
that is not true at all, that is a right wing nationalist talking point that all humans are inherently predisposed to be at each others throats, we were the same race of people same culture just different religion, people lived together happily and married, it was pieces of shit nationalists with their fear mongering and shit talking points like this that drove the divide further and helped stoke the tension
Dear sir, thank you! I lost my home 30 years ago. Nobody cares about us Yugoslavs anymore. Other, less sensitive humans, found a new home, but I couldn't. I remember those "real" people. They lived and laughed and loved. they are gone now. gone forever. painful. don;t cry. can't.
I was just a kid (I'm German) when all this happend and it gives me chills when I think about all of this. This happens in close neighborhood of the EU and took so long that we done something about this. There we're even hole cabinets falled (the netherlands) because we ddn't act fast enought. Its such a shame that all this happend because politics was at play as allways.
You have no reason to apologize for this one. I would not be able to get any words out at all. I salute you for carrying on with this in spite of such overwhelming odds. The thing that makes me so angry and sad at the same time is that NO ONE HAS LEARNED ANYTHING FROM THIS!! We see the same kind of brainless garbage coming from all parts of the globe. We have an enormous hubris calling ourselves "Homo Sapien". There's only the potential for thinking. The truth is that this potential is rarely realized. “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone." I'm so sick of world governments pointing fingers while they do as bad or worse. I am so thankful that you and Francesco survived this insane situation. Please take care of yourself in the future. We desperately need your voice, even if it is crying in the wilderness of greed and corruption.
I have now watch EVERY SINGLE VID on this channel. The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree. Thank you, Evan, Kata, Francesco, Eric, and Chris (and everyone else who contributed, Patrons included).
Why did you delete my comment? You clearly say in the video at 2:50 onwards that Radko Mladic committed genocide not because he was a bad person but because he was a Serb. That's hate speech if I ever saw it and now you censor people bringing it up. This is the kind of rhetoric that leads to genocide, when you blame actions of some people on entire nations, as you rightly claim in the video.
This is the thousandth comment, more people need to learn about this massive loss of human life, I’m so sorry for all of the people who died and your memory will not be forgotten.
Most of the citizens of Yugoslavia didnt want it to collapse? well, only like 95% of Croats and Slovenes did... And when Bosniaks and Macedonians saw Croats and Slovenes want out, they also decided they want to go... People were Yugoslav nationalists first and ethnic nationalists second??? Really? Sorry to tell you man, you got some things terribly wrong. You talk of Yugoslavs as some homogenous group... There were no Yugoslavs... You talk about people dreaming about Yugoslavia... There was no dream of Yugoslavia... There were just lot of small ethnic groups and religions on small territory, having terrrible and bloody past with each others, living together because they didnt have other options or because they were forced to... If they had other options, Yugoslavia would never be created. You know some facts, but i think you dont really understand what you are talking about.
This video has a much darker, almost angry feeling to it. I appreciate the emotion in this one, Evan and understand why, but I also hope you don't stick to this format and theme very much - it makes watching multiple videos in a row more difficult because you need to stop and process the emotion you're feeling. Thank you for still providing all the content that you do, even if it means risking your life.
I love this video. I have been to a lot of places in this world, but few in my eyes are as stunning, intriguing, and beautiful as Sarajevo. I can't wait to go back there. My favorite thought of the video is "once you start thumping those drums everybody hears the beat differently". Makes me think of the current climate in the U.S.
I dislike this video. It is not because i am a nationalist, witch i am, it because you are moralising about events that took place in the past, no understanding of the reagens history, or a full understanding of the events that took place. For example you say that serbs in Bosnia consider Mladic a hero and they justify his acts by saying that what he is doing to them is alright because they did it to us in the past, I have a friend whose father fled the war because muslims came to his village and killed his parents and many others in it. To most serbs in Bosnia Mladic is a hero because, like in the case of my friends dad, he came to there villages/towns and liberated it or protected them, in other words they saw a protector in him. The biggest problem about your video is that you obviously have a biased and have taken a side. For all your talk of history you do seem to have a very week understanding of it and view it poorly politically.
Sometimes I watch Rare Earth and the stories just seem so far away that I don't think about that they really happened. With that story you brought me back to reality and made me see the terror of the world we live in. I thank you for your work. Please watch yourself.
I'm curios what you mean with "It opened my eyes to the other side of the world." in the video description. Any chance you could expand or refine on the meaning of that?
I was a little kid in Texas, this war happened a world away from me. It was the first time I realized over there was just over here except, you know, over there.
@@RareEarthSeries Cool thank you! I wasn't sure about how metaphorically you meant it :) Awesome video and good footage despite the unfortunate circumstances by the way.
Im from Srebrenica, where i lived in the USA for a few years then meet this girl that lived in the Netherlands when I was on vacation in Bosnia. Now im living in the Netherlands and i can visit my home country every year i love Bosnia and what happen there should never be forgotten. Great video much respect for making this !!! (11 July Mars Mira)
Slovenian here. War is always awful, but civilians are usually collateral damage, here they targeted the civilians themselves without much second thought. It's amazing how in a region where so many families have mixed ethnic backgrounds (I myself have Slovenian, Croatian and Montenegrin ancestors) the 'they're not like us' mentality was so strong that this happened. Good vid as always, didn't know there were still so many bull holes there. Bit confused though by the use of Bled in the intro, it's the exact opposite setting of places like Sarajevo and Srebrenica, but maybe that was the point.
Next week I'm going to upload the entire season as one video with a "finale" attached on the end that wraps it all back together. But for now, here's a bit of pain for your Saturday.
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I love listening to these stories. Learning more about other cultures is fantastic. Really great to listen post anxiety to relax. Keep up the amazing work man.
This feels like it had to be one of the hardest videos to narrate. Sending love through the internet.
Thank you Evan - I've been following you and your stories since the Arctic trip and have valued everything you cover - light or dark - but it had to be said that this is one of those darknesses that needs to be remembered and learned from - it doesn't look like we are learning over all but I hope... Your stories give me hope... Your stories that show the world in its many splendoured glory and pain so diverse and so universal that we can celebrate the variety and take comfort from the compatibility. Thank you
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In highschool I knew a boy named fuad. He spoke in a really odd manner. Not just because English was his second language, i never would have judged him for that, but because he spoke like a mafia man.
Fuad was extremely nice most of the time but also different in a way I didn't understand at the time. Aggressive. Defensive. Trying hard to fit in with the dominant kids around him. More so than normal with teenagers.
Later he and I would end up getting our first jobs at the same fast food place and became really good friends.
What I didn't understand in highschool was that he had literally learned English from a copy of Scarface they had in his old village. None of us ever knew how old he was when he moved to the US, we just figured his parents were very traditional and didn't speak much English raising him here.
We called him Yugo half the time and he liked the nickname. None of us knew anything about Yugoslavia.
I didn't understand why he might have been overly defensive in school until we were friends later..
Spending time in a friend's basement, under the influence, he told us stories he had always kept to himself.
Stories about how he and couple family members were all that were left alive. Stories about how his dad had been forced to escape the country on his own and find work, leaving him with his grandmother in order to protect them and to later be able to afford to get them out.
Stories about every single other person he once knew being dead. Stories about men coming down the street they lived on throwing grenades thru the windows of every single house. Stories about his grandmother picking him up and turning the heavy kitchen table over on top of them both when it was finally their window that a grenade came thru.
I still don't know what to say, other than that Fuad is one of the nicest and most important people I will have ever met in my life growing up here in the Midwest of America.
Thank you for being fuad's friend
this made me cry harder than the video itself. man, fuck, humans can really suck sometimes. makes me feel guilty for surviving honestly, when so many of my family have been killed as well. it's hell out there. but the fact that your friend was able to keep moving forward does give me a bittersweet twinge in my chest. i don't really have the words, i guess.
He didn't just survive. He is, by normal american standards, far far more successful now than myself and many of of us who used to hang out together, all of us who had such an easy start in life compared to him.
@@BothHands1 You said it well 👍
zechs black You are Dick (no disrespect here)you just made me cry 😢 because I am also from Bosnia 🇧🇦 and I know All what happened there,, I was also thrown out of my home,property everything was burned to the ground or bombarded..Land mines everywhere still in the ground,,And now I have to live in Fokken Canada 🇨🇦 which I am grateful for,Canada is nice but I had my Country,my Home 🏡 my family,my friends,my people..That’s why your Friend was Fuad behaving like that..Now you know,if you see Fuad say Hi 👋 to him,,as for you Have a nice day Sir...
My wife was hit by mortar shrapnel in Sarajevo when she was 13 and eventually escaped the city through that tunnel. Thank you Evan.
@Anthony Tsatsis you are disgusting
Where are you from
My ex gf was born in Sarajevo 1991. She's Serb. War was shit for everyone
What is her name and I'm Happy for you that she escaped and you married her ?
Noice my gradmother was jit by artillery and my father's childhood friend died from shell
Anyone confused by the ending, they were robbed at gun point by people likely pretending to be police officers. Evan posted about it on the 21st June 2019 on his Twitter
Thanks buddy.
In some other places he would have been robbed by real police officers.
@ He is talking about the end title card.
@ Read the credits
This was filmed last June?
My brother went over there with a group called "Convoy of hope" from the UK in 1993. He is a diesel fitter and mechanic, so it was his task to keep the trucks running.
He couldn't believe what he found, as he described it "people no different to himself who had absolutely nothing left".
One group they delivered aid to were so grateful they insisted that they couldn't accept gifts (tents, clothing and food) without giving something in return, they gave my brother a small wooden handmade cigarette holder.
He's still got it.
That's was really nice. If only the uk Government and french, at that time weren't following a problem of appeasement! Things could have ended alot sooner. Less bloodshed and Bosnia wouldn't be so fucked up, like it is today!!!
I was a young teen in American.. realized then how little people here care.. It is not better but I am blessed, be blessed also.
Once you start thumping those drums, everyone hears the beat differently.
That is a truly great quote
But the subtle beats in the music always ask for clemency for civilians yet humanity fails to recognize that tone
The Argentinian Forensic Anthropology Team helped digging out the mass graves in Bosnia and figuring the identity of the civilian victims of ethnic cleansing. They are the same people who helped to find out the place of many bodies from people kidnapped and murdered by the death squads of the last Argentinian dictatorship (1976-1983). Their work in other countries is a strange source of pride, as it means our communities are linked in some way by tragedy.
You made a great work with this series. The Balkans and its people are a really beutiful and interesting. Glad you are fine
@CAVKING19DELTA TEXAS I really don't understand what Bosnia has to do with Kosovo...
@Edin743 You can tell he is a mental ward escapee.
@@ermin8038 Yup. Couldn't agree more. Dude must be off his meds.
@CAVKING19DELTA TEXAS
uh get over it you pussy
buhu kosovo is serbija who cares.
people in kosovo care and you in serbia should just mind your own business. according to you maybe even switzerland would belong to serbija
Croat here. I’m sorry you had such bad time in our countries man. But great videos nevertheless. The war in yugoslavia was far too complex for just five episodes, but I think you covered it well. Thanks for showing the world a part of our history.
Did he have a bad time
Hey maybe you can explain to me, he makes a comment that the Serbs wanted some kind of revenge for something that happened long before, not that I would ever consider it justification, but for pure historical curiosity, do you know what is he talking about?
@@raimonestanol8234 he’s talking about world war two, where Croatia had a German puppet regime with concentration camps, killing native jews, serbs and roma, among others. While the regime by no means represented the will of the Croatian people, it is still a shameful part of our history.
I am a NATO and UN Peace Keeping Veteran from Canada, that was in Bosnia. The 5 episodes you did was a reminder of places I have been, along with the horrors that Mankind can inflict on to each other, whether be for selfish or greed, and the worst, disillusion. When I returned back to Canada, I seriously re-thought my life, and the experience made me realize how lucky I was a Canadian.
Thanks for being there.
@@ilijabosnjak76 well they did stop it whenever they could. Medak comes in mind for example. However they could only do so much before they would go from peacekeepers to actively involved army. You people just loved to massacre each other. Enjoying it so much you even imported and welcomed Mujahedeens to do it while Serbians had their weekend warriors doing it for fun as well. Bosnia is a clusterfuck of a country... always was. And knowing that you people wanted to break away with a referendum although an important part of the people didn't want to have anything with it. Here is a smart idea... Let's just ignore them. Referendums only work in homogeneous society but you went with it anyway fully knowing what will happen but thinking that Ottomans or Tito or someone will rise up to protect and enforce your will. But yes, it is this random Canadians fault that he was there with UN trying to unfuck the unfuckable.
uporabn1k No We common people didn't want the war,,I was in Sarajevo 1992 when snipers started shootings at us..It was our stupid politicians and Global agenda to dissolve Yugoslavia..It was artificial creation in the first place and real Tito wasn't even real Tito..I love ❤️ my country but it's a piece of Shit,but it's sad that so many people died because of dumb idiots..
@@ilijabosnjak76 well, maybe you didn't want war, but I don't know what other thought. 63% of people came to vote for independence; Serbs didn't vote. It was obvious what would happen if Bosnia leaves SFRJ in this way yet 99% voted to leave. And politicians didn't care to consolidate with the Serbs. People voted themselves into war doesn't matter if they wanted it or not.
@@ilijabosnjak76 Well said my friend ! Right on the money...
My father served at Srebrenica, as part of Dutchbat. He doesn't speak much about it, likely never will, but he has made one thing clear.
That was a disgrace and a stain on the honour of the Dutch military, the Dutch government and the United Nations. We promised to protect those people, and we didn't, and their deaths are our responsibility.
I don't know why it should be stain on Dutch army or government. Foreign troops under UN have no real power to stop anything.
I feel the same way about Rwanda, DD.
@@yuslaven89 power or no power, it's utterly disgraceful to turn your back while those you were supposed to protect are being slauthered. Besides there are well documented cases of horrible, condescending and outright racist behaviour by dutch soldiers towards the bosnians in Srebrenica (including in the museum whose sign appears towards the beginning of the video).
As a Brit who served, yes it was a stain on all of us!.
@@yuslaven89 If you think like that, then why they even were there? They only had one job, to protect civilians. And they failed. Cowardice or ineptness, whatever... It's not that someone from this part of the world points a finger at them, but it's on their own to recognize and feel the guilt. That's the only honorable thing to do.
The raw anger in your voice almost brought me to tears. The sheer brutality of that war is something I hope to never have to experience and I do not wish on anyone.
The tragedy is that it could easily happen again, as long as hatred exists.
@@kostam.1113 you didn't watch the video
@@kostam.1113 That is literately the opposite of the point of his video. That is why ethnic nationalism sucks.
Kosta M. Who the fuck can watch this video and come out of it thinking “oh, ethnic nationalism is a fantastic idea! Multiculturalism sucks!”. And mind you, I say this as someone who would unabashedly describe himself as a *civic* nationalist
@@mzple Kosta is a deeply troubled person, and it is sad but 1 or 5 videos wont change their racist mind, i bet they just watched the whole thing and came out wishing no survivors had come out of the massacres.
"Ethnic nationalism is the lowest form of nationalism, because it doesn't stop until everyone is in their corners burying their dead, again and again and again."
Amen.
ethnic nationalism is the only type of nationalism, the rest is not nationalism is bootlicking
but yeah let's mix ethnic nationalism with jingoism that sure how can we destroy western civilization without destroying what makes the european people stand together for their nation and family
@@ORELIANVS Said the guy with the german Nazi tank operator as avatar lmao
GPCImpulse ok and?
@@ORELIANVS If you don't get what's wrong with that I don't know what to tell you
1:06 That is the memorial for the children of Sarajevo who were killed during the Siege, 1992-1995. I was there last summer, just walking aimlessly, as I like to do in a foreign city. It took me awhile to gather what this thing represented, because it looked beautiful. On the side, not visible in the video, there are seven pillars with the names of the children written on them.
On my way there, I remembered, I saw a house with its side opposite to the hills in the south riddled with bullet holes, as if the Siege ended yesterday, and I remembered that before that, in those hills, I walked past a football game in a street there attended by a new generation children. I haven´t thought anything specific, much less something profound. I just felt sadness, but also hope for the future. Please, let´s make sure this will never happen again.
Thank you for the video, and all the best from Prague, Czech Republic.
I wish we had our Velvet Revolution instead all this mess.
I'm sorry, but it is very probable that such things will happen again and again ... until stopped for good by the workers' power, under communism. Take communism away, what do you get? Nothing but civil and plain wars. Because war benefits the fat cats ... I cross my heart for China's future, for example ...
I remember in Albania, 1991, communism was thrown away and a few weeks later already, some feud murders were again committed, the first ones after 1945.
I was there and just couldn't bring myself to step up to the monument and read those names.
Perfect, after watching this I can watch the entire series again, just to get a second view on the astonishingly interesting and moving history of Yugoslavia. And to pick up all the details I missed the first time. Thank you Evan for bringing us these stories nobody else wanted to talk about. Please never stop doing that.
I'll tell you man, as a Croat from eastern Croatia having lived my childhood in a war.. my city was encircled from the north, east and south by Serb paramilitaries and the YPA for more than 5 years. It still weighs heavy over all of our lives, the people who lived through it as civilians. Thank you for this series.
Why did the militaries encircle cities and besiege them like that?
Osijek?
I made it to Sarajevo this summer and I have to say that I have never been to a place like that ever before. I am not sure I can even describe it properly. There is too much history in this place. Horrible history. Every time I climbed up a more or less high hill and looked down, there were those thin, snow-white marble gravestones scattered throughout the city. Everywhere.
It seemed that not a single photoshot could be taken in the city without one of those endless cemeteries in the background. It felt so terrible. It was scary. Genuinely scary.
The city is so beautiful, but everything you see are those gravestones with amazing decorations and names. Hundreds of names of young people with the same year of death. Bulletholes. 'Roses of Sarajevo' painted red.
And that is probably the most tragic part of the story: the war is over, but life is not. The dead cannot be returned, and former enemies you can't (and never will) forgive stand next to you in a queue, waiting for fresh bread. And you have nothing left but to accept it.
I can't imagine living in that city now. If I had to carry on living there, I would have probably gone mad.
Thank you very much for this video.
Rare Earth indeed.
You learn not to notice this stuff tbh...
The pure emotion in this video has made it a work of art. One that I very much did not enjoy watching, you can't enjoy something this dark, yet it has power, it has the raw and angry power this topic deserves. Thank you for making this video.
Yeah I hated reviewing it and won't watch it a second time.
@@RareEarthSeries As I posted, I respectfully disagree with your tone in this video.
@@annai6393 and what exactly is wrong with his voice tone?
@@malizlato Normally his presentation is very neutral and I much prefer that. I really disliked his tone in this one, so emontional, not pleasant to listen to.
No, it's called appeal to emotions because the video is propaganda
Hey saw the description I glad your ok and hopefully this dosen't shake you or your crew to much and you bounce back fast good luck to you and your crew
It was in June I'm all good.
@@RareEarthSeries You filmed this last June?
@@RareEarthSeries you've got to explain dude. You can't just leave us hanging. Really glad you're ok.
@@fishsmell2570 No, he doesn't. He can explain it if he wants to. Nobody is "owed" anything.
@@nitehawk86 heck yea. It's like if I told you I had 2 fully functioning wieners and didn't have show you a picture. Just saying. Thankfully I don't.
In the early 2000s we got new neighbors from bosnia. The oldest son was the same age as me. I never understood why he was so different till my parents told me about the war there. I heard him cry and scream through many nights and could never understand what he had to go through
I can’t thank you enough for this series. I spent a semester studying Central and Eastern Europe. This was in 1993. What happened to Yugoslavia following my classes still haunts me. Enough so, that I’m headed there next week. This series couldn’t have been more timely.
Nice work!
Welcome to Balkans
AC x M I’m posting vids throughout the trip.
@@steelemedia subbed looking forward to the videos
Hope you have a safe trip.
Somehow I’ve founded almost every single vid in this series in under five minutes from its posting
What's up with that? I experienced the same.
@@gabrielfraser2109 The elusive algorithm is in his favor.
Do you have the notificaiton bell clicked? Aside from parsing through all of your subscriptions, that is the only way to force youtube to show you stuff.
You could really sense your emotion in this last episode.
I enjoyed this series very much.
(not the killing but the way you told it.)
Such a beautiful country brought to such ruin because of a few maniacs.
I've never felt a connection to a city until I've started to learn about the siege Sarajevo. Living and growing up in Serbia in the '90s nobody ever talked about the siege, mostly because nobody knew, slowly in the 2000 the voices started tho creep in to the mainstream. Newspaper articles, testemonials... I remember listening to a radio show, and this woman Mima Vuković-Kurić talked about her expirience of the siege, I cried like a baby for an hour. I felt shame. That my countryman could do such things, and be celebrated here like fucking heroes.
When I first came to Sarajevo I fell in love the moment I steped out of the bus. Then I cried again, and again. A (soon to be)grown man, walking around a city crying at every corner. Ofcourse it was not the city itself that made me fall for it's charms, it was THE RAJA! I know that things will never be the same, some say that "Raja iz Saraj'va" no longer exist, I tend to disagree.
Pozdrav za raju i sve dobre ljude, jebem ti rat, da ti jebem, opet ću se rasplakati...
@ S II - Much respect and love to you S II, you have a big heart ! Svaka cast Majstore
Jedinstvo, al zapravo ❤
You're reaction is one of the reasons why I wish we would stop referring to Serbs or Croats but rather Chetniks or Oustachis. It's an unjust simplification because not all Serbs or Croats where part of this and many fought against those fascists. This is coming from a non Yougoslave who was deeply involved with the defence of Sarajevo. Peace and justice require truths however complexe they are !
I'm just wondering did you cry the same for Bratunac and Kravice as you cried for Sarajevo
@@NN-rw2vn we are NOT playing this game, sorry...
I have a very deep respect for the fact that you recorded this stunning video under such stress. Bravo!
What a strong way to end, with just the right amount of moral outrage, humility and indignation.
Well done and thank you Rare Earth.
I've never seen you angrier, and I feel this energy so much in this video. Thank you for bringing a new form of understanding to this war for someone who never really began to grasp it, and now does even less so. War should not be understood.
Evan, this is an absolutely fantastic series of essays. Thank you for sharing not just the facts, but the humanity of it all. The human element. Thank you.
Wow. Simply...wow. Speechless.
Thank you, Evan and crew.
I had the plates pulled on my car a few years back. I called for a tow truck, loaded the car, and on the ride back with the driver him and I began to talk. For a tow truck driver - he was the most soft spoken, polite, and humble one I could imagine.
He was a teenager during these years and lived nearby Sarajevo. I was aware of the conflict, and the complex history of the region. As we got deeper into our conversation he divulged into the atrocities he remembered, specifically the soldiers going house to house, systematically murdering the families around him.
He remembers the night his father took the family into the forest with their tents and camping supplies. They left in the evening at dusk, and hiked most of the night. When returning a week later, they were met with the partially burned corpses of their neighbours, strewn across the front yards of their own houses.
If I recall correctly his family fled to other regions of Bosnia, before moving to Canada.
Thank you, for making this video. I found this video very thought-provoking but that was the only thought I want to post is a thank you for telling/sharing some of the harder to swallow story, as often they are the most important...impactful even.
I'm a Belgrader and I recently visited, and was fairly shocked, by Sarajevo. The war as a whole, I can wrap my head around, but I will never understand the siege. I have seen the bullet holes and the ruins. An even more pointless waste of human life than is usual for wars. In horribly pragmatic terms, nothing to be gained but bad publicity. And, I guess, a satiation of blood-thirst.
There was nothing wrong said in the video, but what pains me as a Serb is that I have heard this side of the story very, very many times, and the whole world knows it, and then everyone conveniently omits the hardship of the Serbs, or, indeed, any culpability on part of the leaders of the other sides in the conflict.
Yeah, I get that it wasn't meant to be objective or look at all sides, the story is valid. The problem is that we already have this kind of reporting. A lot of it. And as such, it is the opposite of what I've come to expect from Rare Earth.
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What hardships of the Serbs are you talking about? He mentioned the hardships of Serbs in relation to the Ustashe regime back in WW2 and he openly named Pavelic as a war criminal. I didn't see your protest on that video? In this video, he focused on the real victims of the 90s war - the Bosnians.
I was born in the US in Dec of 2001 and as an adult now learning this, I can say holy shit. I knew of the mess in the 90s in Yugoslavia, but this really puts the horror in my soul about how bad this really was
So you just turned 18?
No offense (really!) but despite the US considering you an adult in some senses(they'll happily send you off to war, or to prison for life) the human brain doesn't finish development until about 26.
My advice is not to be in a hurry to be an adult. I'd give anything to be your age again, and despite being old enough to be your parent, I've never seen myself as an adult, and I hope I never will.
@@morrigan191 I get u
Balkan's problem has always been that "One side's hero is the other side's criminal and vice versa"
the problem in the Balkans are reciprocal fear structures the peoples have built up in themselves against the other peoples there resulting in no one wanting to be a minority in any one area because as a minority you believe you are at risk --> for example, Serbs of BiH wanting to remain in a union with Serbia in the early 90's would be seen by Serbs as a centuries long struggle to be free and united with other Serbs but on the other hand, will be seen as simply the threat of Greater Serbian aspirations by Croats and Bosniaks… a centralised BiH or de-centralised BiH but decentralised on economic centres rather than along ethnic lines will be seen by Bosniaks as inherently democratic and reasonable for a prosperous nation moving forward but Serbs and Croats will see it as a prelude to Muslim domination due to their demographics and which will see Serbs and Croats - constituent peoples of BiH - becoming minorities in their own land suffering what they must by the dictates of Sarajevo
which all leads to a very unfortunately conclusion --> there is no real solution to the problems in Bosnia... they are all going to just playing over and over again
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Yeah, I know, it is complicated. None of the sides is putting themselves in the other side's shoes either (and it is a three sided problem to boot)
@@98091238 there is give the majority serb and croatian part of the country to their respective countries and make bosnia a state with one ethnicity
I disagree.
The real monster was every last pathetic, spineless excuse of a male who fired a weapon at those civilians.
The clerks who sent them pay.
The quartermasters who sent them ammo.
The family members who honored them and treated them with respect.
Each one of them are the real monsters- an angry man who people refuse to follow is just that, an angry man.
Out of 83% who voted at the referendum for Croatian independence, 95% wanted out of Yugoslavia.... What the hell are you talking about...Yugoslavia was doomed from the start only iron fist of Tito held it together by brute force..
Exactly.
I recently got fired from my job, but after watching your videos, it gives me inspiration to do what I want to do, so maybe it's a new fresh start? I don't know, but as soon as I get a new job I'll contribute on Patreon for sure. Godspeed!
"I'm not at all happy with how this video turned out. It has so much unachieved potential. But men tried to murder me just a few hours before I shot this and Francesco was traumatized and had to go home immediately, taking the only remaining camera with him. So I did what I could in the hours I was given. In a way, it was cathartic.
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What the everloving fuck?
I need an explanation.
They were robbed at gun point by fake cops
People getting tired of his filosofy way of telling, he dont look to the invidual but only as the people as a whole, so they looked at him as a people as a whole(a rich american) bye taking a gun and aiming it on him as a indivual and taking his camera
Now some indivual has more money, money to spend at other shops witch make thier country as a whole a better place
JUR O the fuck is wrong with you?
@@HTC-1337 wierd flex but ok.
As a person born with the grenades of Nato bombing near my window i would say this is not the end of this series. The crimes did not end in a civil war in Bosnia, it engulfed the whole of Yugoslavia and in the end USA pulled the plug and violated UN agreements when they launched operation Merciful Angel.
78 Days of hell where USA and other Nato allies bombed everything, they didn't care about the military or the war crimes soldiers committed. They wanted to see a country burn, the power hungry capitalists wanted to see a once communist country destroyed. So they bombed everything, everything that moved or didn't move, bridges, hospitals, tv stations, factories everything. They set the country of Serbia back to the stone age.
A nation half across the world in the name of Mercy killed civilians, women and children and couldn't care less because they were nothing more than a dot on their planes 10.000 meters up in the sky. In those 78 days Nato showcased their weaponry to the potential buyers in the world. Every single thing they can use at that point they did, just to see how effective it is. From weapons that have been stockpiled since ww2 to the modern state of the art "poor" uranium shells. They intentionally hit oil stations and chemical factories spilling all of the toxic by-products directly into the water both underground and overground. Effectively poisoning the soil for generations to come.
Someone in the comments mentioned how they were in the Bosnian war as part of the "peace" mission and how they are happy to be back home. That is the problem, a civil war is atrocious but the people there are fighting for their beliefs, there are no right sides except in their own minds, and in the end they still have to live there right next to the place where they once waged war. But there is no excuse for people thousands of miles away to come, destroy everything and then talk about how lucky they are to be living in a peaceful country. Every war is evil beyond comprehension but people need to understand just because you are up high and mighty above those in the mud it doesn't give you the right to destroy everything and still have a peaceful sleep...
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Well if it isn't the consequences of your actions.
Nato didn't kill civilians, not even a 10th of what serbs killed in kosovo, they targeted economic and military structures, fuck off with your self victimization, the serb nationalists started all of the yugoslav wars, they lost all of them, then they got pissy and started genociding civilians.
After all of that they got their military bases and economic structures rightfully fucked by america and now you whine like a dog and victimize yourself, serbia got what was coming to it, no more, no less.
@bmetr1 I am sorry that you feel that way. But the point here is that we were all manipulated for the benefit of others. It breaks my heart that even a single person has died in this war, I might have not been alive at that exact moment but I wish I could change your opinion about my country. From everyone I had contact with not a single person has had negative feelings or hatred towards any other country including Bosnia. Our government doesn't represent our people and that is why we have brought down Milošević regime and it looks like we might have to do it again. My advice to you as one person to another is don't look at statistics and propaganda, no one ever deserved to die or to suffer. I wish you all the best
If they bombed Serbia as they bombed Germany, perhaps You would wake up and would not support anymore this nationalist Nazis which are still in power in Serbia. You speek about 78 days of Bombing, what about Years of bombing of Sarajevo. Just one thing: If Serbs have used stones instead of granates than Sarajevo would be 10 meters covered with stones, so many granates they have shot on this city...
@@rihadcizmo5501 Nobody supports the regime here but the fact is even the dead get up to vote. But don't worry everyone is leaving here, a few years more we will be covered in stones of time, as nobody will be left to clear them.
As someone who spend summers in Bosnia where my relatives lived I can only say that my experience was great, great people! I lived in neighboring republic that saw the rise of opportunist who played on the lowest in humans, within a few years from normal society all scum surfaced since the opportunist provided them with opportunity to go to war against neighbors to steal and kill under nationalist banner. As French phylosopher Renan stated a nationalist is one who do not know his/her history and hate neighbors . Your episode about San Marino evoked great thinking of their leader of the time when replied to Napoleon, empires come and go but neighbors are eternal. Within that time society decayed rapidly and war became reality. Today remnants and "upgrades" of these "smradovi" as we call it (english does not provide adequate translation although some will point out as stinkers but meaning is much deeper and darker) are still ruling and there is no end in the sight. Criminals are front runners with a fame and place in the upper society, the cool people. Just remember, every country with inept and malicious leaders and politicians can bring normal country to chaos within a span of a few years. Good series!
Your profile pic has the Croatian chessboard on it, but your comment might as well be about our own smradovi in Serbia... I don't think the rest of Europe is that much better than us but Balkan sure is a cursed peninsula.
@@djdjukic Pozdrav, komentar se odnosi na sve one sovinisticke licnosti koje su putem rata se obogatili te i dalje sede na istim pozicijama samo pod drugim imenom. S obzirom da sam otisao pred rat ali sam proziveo 25 godina u socijalistickoj Jugoslaviji imao sam priliku iz prve ruke da vidim sta ce uslediti. Ja im porucujem tada nismo znali sta smo imali ali danas znaju sta su izgubili, sedam jadnih drzava koje su zavisne od drugih i u kojima vlastodrsci su upravnici tudjinu jer su sve resurse rasprodali vani. Nazalost, ne samo Evropa nego i Amerika i ono sto se desilo u Jugoslaviji doci ce i do ovih napomenutih u skoroj buducnosti. Sve najbolje!
Even if the video didn’t hit its full potential, I’m still happy that you finished what you started and I hope that everyone in the crew is alright after everything.
Expertly done, Evan. Respectful when possible, honest when necessary. Good work.
Thank you for shedding light on this
You often move me with your incredible stories, but rarely am I crying while commenting. I remember feeling so fecking helpless at that time. I wasn't anyone who had a connection there, I wasn't in the military, I was just human. I remember hearing about the civilians, especially the children, when I had small children myself. I hated those who harmed them - on whatever side. I blamed the UN for not doing enough. But when it came down to it, it was those who started it all off who should take the lion's share of the blame and if they're still alive, suffer for it.
I read your story below the video. I hope you and Francesco are doing well. I am not even going to pretend to understand what that feels like except to think that it must have been bloody horrific.
Don't think that this wasn't the right way to tell this story, Evan, it was perfect. Don't change a thing. Don't wish you could change a thing. You told the actual story - the one that matters. Much love to you and Francesco. Hope you're back out there soon and opening our eyes to yet more of the world's often hidden history.
Thank you, Evan, for a great series.
Such a juxtaposition of beautiful footage and great tragedy.
Well done and, again, thank you!
I was a kid then, my home town Belgrade, Serbia wasn't directly afected by war and my parents tried not to talk about it, but I watched it all on tv. We lived a hard life under sanctions and whenever I saw shooting star I first wished to have chocolate or spmething like that, but I regreted it immediately for being so selfish, wish of all wishes was for war in Bosnia to end.
Dude, this video is just unbelievable. Thank you, greetings from Bosnia
@Rare Earth (Evan)
Thank you for spending your precious time on this short documentation.
And thank you for visiting Sarajevo.
Let's just hope people would finally be civilized in the future no matter in which god someone believes or what race and so on. It's a very high goal but let's aim for something high, shall we.
Incredibly well-put. Powerful series, something to be proud of. Thank you - May we ALL learn to celebrate our differences and respect them. Please.
That video was perfect.
Every nationalist, anywhere, needs it played on loop to them, until they realise the ultimate destination of their ideology.
I like learning about and studying wars. My "favourites" are The conflict in SE Asia/Vietnam War, and the American Civil War. I study and read about others too, but nothing quite tears at my heart, and makes me despair like the Yugoslav War.
There is something about the shear senselessness and medieval brutality of that war, combined with the lethality and destructive power of modern day weapons, that makes it so much more disturbing than any other war, IMO.
Anyhow, real glad you didn't get shot, like. I remember you posting up on Twitter about getting robbed.
This series has been well worth your effort, though, I think.
Keep up the good work.
@@kostam.1113 No it wasn't. It was built during a war and against genocide and in the late 70s it was probably the best country to live in.
The SE Asian conflict (Indonesian here), include the regime of Soeharto are notoriously economical wrecker (although i can blaming his kids or i wil disappear), especially when the Cold War still ongoing. Lots of poverty, rejecting communism ideology, and the glory of the food is a myth, it only glorified the rice back then. Man, i can see that the Yugoslav are deadlier than what's wrong in my country since most of them including killing eachother's life.
There's no educating a nationalist. The only way to do it is to make it illegal and prevent any nationalist from ever becoming involved with governing societies.
I celebrate your effort to create thoughtful videos with impartial analysis of historical events from the viewpoint of the forgotten people directly affected by them. We tend to look at history from a focus tainted by religious, political ideologies, or our own biases that makes us complicit in allowing the same vicious cycles to continue dividing us. It is unfortunate that filming a video will put your life in peril and appreciate your efforts to add to the human narrative!
This was a great series. Made me stop and think. It is easy to learn about a far away event in news clips or books but this put a more human face on it. Keep up the great work.
I will never not appreciate you guys making these videos. Every time I watch a Rare Earth video it activates my brain, gives me something to think about. Videos like that are rare nowadays.
The movie „No Man‘s Land“ from 2001 captures this sad story nicely in spirit, recommended watch after this great series.
Its an incredible movie... One that taught a 16 y/o me more about what happened there, and just the condition of mankind and the desperate hopeless situations we will put others we dont even know in, for the pettiest of reasons
Watch it, to feel ashamed of everything
The war, the media, the "peacekeepers" and mostly for to be reminded of all those the world was robbed from meeting
For people who watch it, pay close attention to the dialog in the very last scene.
it's on my list ^_^
"nod and say yes"
also a good one: www.imdb.com/title/tt0116860/
I asked the son of a Croatian soldier how he felt about the other countries after the split. He hold no anger or hatred towards anyone, even if you told him “this man shot at you”, he wouldn’t care. It’s rarely the will of the people.
I fought in this war. And this man is making it out to be that we were friends, no, we weren't. We actually hated each other very, very badly.
Croat here, i can't agree that most people wanted Yugoslavia to stay together, at least not in Dalmatia because we had always felt closer to countries like Italy and wanted freedom. but i feel like you covered the topic really well and you didn't pick sides with one group or the other. thanks for representing our regions history. Especially since its such a difficult, and multi-sided one.
Well, time to watch the entire series over so that I can get the full impact for the 5th time
I'll put it out as an hour connected piece next week with an addendum wrapping it up
Hey Evan, not sure what you guys encountered but just wanted to say I root for you. Hope you're all safe and feeling better. Thank you for sharing your understandings of this Rare Earth.
An excellent achievement in making what can so often be otherwise a footnote in history, vividly depicted without visceral violence.
I appreciate it that you topped it so well, with unfettered expression to something as terrible, but so tragically common, that one may often be forgiven to forget; "something like this can happen to all of us"
Thank you. Lest we never forget.
As a child living 1500km away, this was in the news every day. It seeped into my mind. The stories, pictures and videos of the aftermath that surfaced will never leave me. Only recently have I come to the realisation of the full extent of this war that has haunted my childhood. I can only imagine the fear and horror from the other side of the little television we had at home.
Damn we could see the emotions pouring from your body, Terrifying you were robbed at gunpoint but the fact that you decided to roll with the emotions was A+. Even if you didnt the video would have been A+ anyways.
Stay safe out there!
Very sad and open minding series, it's something you can never heard about, unless someone who have been there tell the story. Great video, great job man
I'm Canadian, but I lived in a small town in New Zealand from 1992 until 1998, where I finished high school (in 1995). My high school's computing teacher there resigned in 1994, to travel to the Balkans, to teach UN support personnel how to use computers. I caught up with him a couple years later, after he'd returned to New Zealand. One of the things he said that's stuck with me the most is that running network cables was so easy, because every building was shot full of holes. I've retold this story, as an amusing anecdote, many times in the last 25 years, and... through no fault of Rare Earth's... now I want to puke, feeling like the full weight of that insensitivity has just landed on me at once.
This was chilling in a way a lot of documentaries on the same subject are not. Evan, you might think you should be unhappy with how this turned out, but I'm wiping away tears and that's not something I often do.
This finale is full of rage. And sadness.
Years ago I read a book about this war. It left me shocked. Srebrenica was the worst.
Thank you for all the serie👏👏
Prijedor was far more vicious. Look it up
This series should be nominated to an award competition. And it should win it.
Fantastic job team, fantastic job.
The narrative of history is simultaneously more gorgeous and hellish than any work of fiction. The complete desecration of humanity I have graciously never experienced is terrifying beyond belief. May the Yugoslavs rest in peace. May the Bosnians rest in peace. May all those who have been stripped of their humanity and cast brutally cast into indiscriminate hell rest in peace.
Good format. Worthy reminder... before it happens again somewhere else.
Hey RareEarth, thanks for a great channel! I totally agree with what you've said in this episode, but in the same time, paradoxically, I disagree. Even when telling only the truth the result can be misleading because some omissions... I will not tell you what omissions were... I will challenge you to find some Sarajevo videos before the war and compare to your video (hint: look at the people not architecture). Anyway congrats for a great job and keep going!
I went into this knowing I'd be wrong, and I appreciate the way you position it. :)
Sorin, there is a lot of Arab tourists in the last 5 years in Sarajevo.
Fantastic video, well made and superbly narrated. I am sorry you had an unfortunate and barbaric experience during making of your great documentary. For your work I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Please be safe.
This is a fantastic series. More engaging and informative than any text or documentary I've seen. As a second-generation Yugoslavian immigrant, trying to understand the history and politics is pretty difficult with your common history book. Big thumbs up and thanks
I have been to both Sarajevo and Belgrade. These cities have such an important yet complicated history and culture for the region. From the roman empire, to the ottoman empire, to Yugoslavia, to finally the breakup. I know its complicated but I think more people should learn about this or at least be familiar with it. Thank you for posting this.
So much emotion in your voice, it was a really touching video.
Love from India bud. I watch your old videos sometimes and wonder what path my country is heading. Maybe do a video on us someday?
They held the cultures and people together by force, not love. Some learned to love, but you can not force true love. Under the surface the hatred festered and boiled.
Until it blew up.
Just like modern Britain then..
Just like modern Britain then..
What hatred?
that is not true at all, that is a right wing nationalist talking point that all humans are inherently predisposed to be at each others throats, we were the same race of people same culture just different religion, people lived together happily and married, it was pieces of shit nationalists with their fear mongering and shit talking points like this that drove the divide further and helped stoke the tension
Dear sir, thank you! I lost my home 30 years ago. Nobody cares about us Yugoslavs anymore. Other, less sensitive humans, found a new home, but I couldn't. I remember those "real" people. They lived and laughed and loved. they are gone now. gone forever. painful. don;t cry. can't.
I was just a kid (I'm German) when all this happend and it gives me chills when I think about all of this. This happens in close neighborhood of the EU and took so long that we done something about this. There we're even hole cabinets falled (the netherlands) because we ddn't act fast enought.
Its such a shame that all this happend because politics was at play as allways.
Divide and conquer. Now we're just a bunch of colonies where German companies get cheap labour force
You have no reason to apologize for this one. I would not be able to get any words out at all. I salute you for carrying on with this in spite of such overwhelming odds.
The thing that makes me so angry and sad at the same time is that NO ONE HAS LEARNED ANYTHING FROM THIS!!
We see the same kind of brainless garbage coming from all parts of the globe.
We have an enormous hubris calling ourselves "Homo Sapien". There's only the potential for thinking. The truth is that this potential is rarely realized.
“He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone." I'm so sick of world governments pointing fingers while they do as bad or worse.
I am so thankful that you and Francesco survived this insane situation. Please take care of yourself in the future.
We desperately need your voice, even if it is crying in the wilderness of greed and corruption.
This exact thing is happening in india right now... I'm scared
Don't worry, India's not going anywhere.
I have now watch EVERY SINGLE VID on this channel. The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree. Thank you, Evan, Kata, Francesco, Eric, and Chris (and everyone else who contributed, Patrons included).
thank you for your work
Great video man, felt the emotion and frustration in your voice
Why did you delete my comment? You clearly say in the video at 2:50 onwards that Radko Mladic committed genocide not because he was a bad person but because he was a Serb. That's hate speech if I ever saw it and now you censor people bringing it up. This is the kind of rhetoric that leads to genocide, when you blame actions of some people on entire nations, as you rightly claim in the video.
Great series, Evan. Well done.
1:44 Is that baby-Hitler in the ads on the street?
Yes. It was a poster advertising a theater play.
One of your best episodes. No matter how much pain it had to reflect.
You need to make a series about Macedonia. The actions of both Serbia and Greece that led to "North Macedonia".
This is the thousandth comment, more people need to learn about this massive loss of human life, I’m so sorry for all of the people who died and your memory will not be forgotten.
Most of the citizens of Yugoslavia didnt want it to collapse? well, only like 95% of Croats and Slovenes did... And when Bosniaks and Macedonians saw Croats and Slovenes want out, they also decided they want to go... People were Yugoslav nationalists first and ethnic nationalists second??? Really? Sorry to tell you man, you got some things terribly wrong. You talk of Yugoslavs as some homogenous group... There were no Yugoslavs... You talk about people dreaming about Yugoslavia... There was no dream of Yugoslavia... There were just lot of small ethnic groups and religions on small territory, having terrrible and bloody past with each others, living together because they didnt have other options or because they were forced to... If they had other options, Yugoslavia would never be created. You know some facts, but i think you dont really understand what you are talking about.
Jesus man. This one was rough to set through. Can only imagine how hard it was to research.
Thank you for sharing.
This video has a much darker, almost angry feeling to it. I appreciate the emotion in this one, Evan and understand why, but I also hope you don't stick to this format and theme very much - it makes watching multiple videos in a row more difficult because you need to stop and process the emotion you're feeling. Thank you for still providing all the content that you do, even if it means risking your life.
I don't aim to make easily digestible pulp, but appreciate the feedback.
I'd rather have one viewer change their behaviour than a million entertained.
I love this video. I have been to a lot of places in this world, but few in my eyes are as stunning, intriguing, and beautiful as Sarajevo. I can't wait to go back there. My favorite thought of the video is "once you start thumping those drums everybody hears the beat differently". Makes me think of the current climate in the U.S.
I dislike this video. It is not because i am a nationalist, witch i am, it because you are moralising about events that took place in the past, no understanding of the reagens history, or a full understanding of the events that took place. For example you say that serbs in Bosnia consider Mladic a hero and they justify his acts by saying that what he is doing to them is alright because they did it to us in the past, I have a friend whose father fled the war because muslims came to his village and killed his parents and many others in it. To most serbs in Bosnia Mladic is a hero because, like in the case of my friends dad, he came to there villages/towns and liberated it or protected them, in other words they saw a protector in him. The biggest problem about your video is that you obviously have a biased and have taken a side. For all your talk of history you do seem to have a very week understanding of it and view it poorly politically.
Sometimes I watch Rare Earth and the stories just seem so far away that I don't think about that they really happened.
With that story you brought me back to reality and made me see the terror of the world we live in.
I thank you for your work. Please watch yourself.
I'm curios what you mean with "It opened my eyes to the other side of the world." in the video description. Any chance you could expand or refine on the meaning of that?
I was a little kid in Texas, this war happened a world away from me. It was the first time I realized over there was just over here except, you know, over there.
@@RareEarthSeries Cool thank you! I wasn't sure about how metaphorically you meant it :) Awesome video and good footage despite the unfortunate circumstances by the way.
Im from Srebrenica, where i lived in the USA for a few years then meet this girl that lived in the Netherlands when I was on vacation in Bosnia. Now im living in the Netherlands and i can visit my home country every year i love Bosnia and what happen there should never be forgotten. Great video much respect for making this !!! (11 July Mars Mira)
Now I need to hug someone!
I felt alot of emotion in this video. You really care. Thanks.
Where are your sources?
What specifically are you having trouble finding?
@@RareEarthSeries There are so many arbitrary claims.
Slovenian here. War is always awful, but civilians are usually collateral damage, here they targeted the civilians themselves without much second thought. It's amazing how in a region where so many families have mixed ethnic backgrounds (I myself have Slovenian, Croatian and Montenegrin ancestors) the 'they're not like us' mentality was so strong that this happened. Good vid as always, didn't know there were still so many bull holes there. Bit confused though by the use of Bled in the intro, it's the exact opposite setting of places like Sarajevo and Srebrenica, but maybe that was the point.