The walls are peppered with bullet holes, while the remains of the blown up mosque act as a wood store.
A young lad stops and looks down the street in both directions, comes closer but then turns away. After a few steps he spins round, comes back and says:
– Everyone here knows what happened to the Muslims. They all know about the mass murder, but nobody can bear living with it.
He then walks quickly away and disappears round a corner.
A stop in the killing and a media withdrawal doesn’t mean the Balkan war is at an end.
Jens Olof Lasthein’s book deals with daily life in the shadow of a war. Watching and waiting – between mortar attacks, after ethnic cleansing or before shots are once again fired.
Photographs and texts came into being during travels in former Yugoslavia 1994-99.
