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Sarajevo awards honorary citizenship to UK heavy metal star Bruce Dickinson

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  1. [4]
    cfabbro
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    This is actually a pretty cool gesture by the city. The trailer in the article for the documentary on the concert Iron Maiden put on during the siege also looks pretty interesting and I will...

    This is actually a pretty cool gesture by the city. The trailer in the article for the documentary on the concert Iron Maiden put on during the siege also looks pretty interesting and I will definitely be hunting down a copy.

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      EightRoundsRapid
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      This is a film made by some people I knew back in the day called Storming Sarajevo about a fairly impromptu trip shortly after the Dayton Accords were signed. Very much a DIY ethos in evidence,...

      This is a film made by some people I knew back in the day called Storming Sarajevo about a fairly impromptu trip shortly after the Dayton Accords were signed. Very much a DIY ethos in evidence, and maybe the third trip they took during the war

      https://youtu.be/-eLhR8vVhNk

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        cfabbro
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        That looks neat, thanks! I'll give it a watch later tonight and let you know what I thought. Did you know the gents featured in the doc or the filmmakers recording them (or are they one and the same)?

        That looks neat, thanks! I'll give it a watch later tonight and let you know what I thought. Did you know the gents featured in the doc or the filmmakers recording them (or are they one and the same)?

        1. EightRoundsRapid
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          One and the same. This is another from the old days that starts with a trip through the Balkans not long after the war. https://youtu.be/Jt9W5P1tzF4

          One and the same.

          This is another from the old days that starts with a trip through the Balkans not long after the war.

          https://youtu.be/Jt9W5P1tzF4

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