today we went to visit the memorial cemetery for the massacre at Srebrenica. the actual cemetery part was pretty impressive, being that there were 8000 plus marble gravestones there. it was all that i expected, the museum? portion however was not all that impressive, it was put into an old industrial building. but it was really just a cleared industrial building with a dozen pictures/plaques placed around the walls, maybe they have more stuff during normal hours?
at the time i was affected, but i feel like ive seen alot of memorial sites/museums to really fucked up events in history, that maybe i am callous to it? i mean, i have no personal connection other than a shared humanity, so now im pretty much over it. like it was certainly impressive seeing all the marked graves, and it was and is a big deal, but i feel that these things happen all to often for us to put effort into mourning, when we should be working on prevention.
anyways, on a far less somber note, Miguel and i wandered around Sarajevo some, finding this
though in recognize this actually is really somber being that that event led to the greatest war in history up to that time, and then a second, and then a clusterfuck of ethnic/national conflict for the rest of the century. so we will look at something more less saddening
buildings still scarred from the war, but that isnt really less sad either, ill try this one
a big church, arguably a primary vehicle for the instigation of violence in the Balkans, which is also sad, so sorry, i couldnt come up with something bright and cheery today.
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