The nationalist Bosnian Serb political party, the leader being Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, had removed its members from the government. In March Serbian paramilitary forces, reinforced by the Serbian-dominated Yugoslav National Army, began a campaign of terror in eastern Bosnia. By early May the Yugoslav Army announced that it would withdraw from Bosnia-Herzegovina. In reality, however, some 80,000 men (mostly Bosnian Serbs) simply changed uniforms and, with a powerful arsenal including tanks and aircraft left behind by the truncated Yugoslav Army, continued prosecuting the war and genocide. This reconfigured Bosnian Serb force under "General" Ratko Mladic, began seizing territory in northern and eastern Bosnia, expelled much of the non-Serbian population, and engaged in "ethnic cleansing." This campaign included mass killings of civilians, concentration camps, systematic rape, and the forced displacement of millions, creating the largest flow of refugees in Europe since World War II.
SEQUENCE OF FILM.
I chose the beginning sequence of this film as it seems the best place to start as it is what us as the audience are first intended to see. It also displays all the elements of the film, meaning it gives us a brief introduction of the films storyline. .
I will first remind you of the series of events of the sequence that I have picked. We are first intrduced to images of Serbian soldiers on a tank. They are celebrating a victory over the destruction of the Croatian city of . Then there is a long tracking shot from the point of view of the Serbian tank and we see destroyed by shelling. Then we cut to a journalist, Michael Henderson, discussing the refugees, who we see behind him. Then the screen widens and we see Sarajevo in 1984 (the time of the war in croatia) during the Winter Olympics, happy times. Then we cut again to the interior of a beauty salon, and realize a wedding is taking place, mother, daughter and family are there.