{"id":9295,"date":"2025-01-06T11:42:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T15:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/?p=9295"},"modified":"2025-01-09T12:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T16:32:06","slug":"snipers-alley-sarajevo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/06\/snipers-alley-sarajevo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sniper Alley, Sarajevo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/471812824_10162359034769099_5437941878725194728_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/471812824_10162359034769099_5437941878725194728_n.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/471812824_10162359034769099_5437941878725194728_n-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/471812824_10162359034769099_5437941878725194728_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;9:02&#8230;Sarajevo&#8230;.Sniper Alley just outside the Holiday Inn Hotel.\u00a0 Thirty years ago, during the siege that lasted four years, Sniper Alley ran\u00a0along the main boulevard into and out of Sarajevo.\u00a0\u00a0Sarajevo is a long and narrow city that sits in a valley with mountains on each side.\u00a0Serbian snipers were positioned in the high-rise buildings along the road and mountains a little further away.\u00a0 They picked off anything that moved in the street or who they could see in the windows of the apartments.\u00a0 Civilians still had to move around the city to survive.\u00a0 They risked their lives each time they stepped outside to get water, food, or wood to burn for heat.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What seemed insane but was reality, they either ran down a street to hide behind an obstacle, like a destroyed tram or car, or would wait for United Nations armored vehicles and walk behind them, using them as shields.&nbsp; It was luck that kept people from dying in the street.&nbsp; In most cases, if someone was shot, the body couldn&#8217;t be retrieved easily since the snipers would then prey on the people trying to recover the body. It was barbaric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;9:02&#8230;Sarajevo&#8230;.Sniper Alley just outside the Holiday Inn Hotel.\u00a0 Thirty years ago, during the siege that lasted four years, Sniper Alley ran\u00a0along the main boulevard into and out of Sarajevo.\u00a0\u00a0Sarajevo is a long and narrow city that sits in a valley with mountains on each side.\u00a0Serbian snipers were positioned in the high-rise buildings along the road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[753,758,754],"tags":[756,757,760],"class_list":["post-9295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sarajevo","category-siege-of-sarajevo","category-sniper-alley","tag-sarajevo","tag-siege-of-sarajevo","tag-sniper-alley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9304,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295\/revisions\/9304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}