We made bread from nettles, if you could find nettles. Others were killed by landmines, Serb snipers or in ambushes. Almir went twice, carrying each time 72 pounds of flour on his 170-pound frame. Today Gorazde is but a shell of itself. Every roof appears to have been hit by mortars or fragments, and hardly a pane of glass is to be found.
Ham radio is still the only means of communication with the outside world.
There is no electricity, or water, no newspapers, and no vehicular traffic because there is no gasoline. Yet Gorazde functions. When buses arrived from Sarajevo Thursday with relatives and returning residents, a moment of high emotion, thousands lined the route or the arrival area and waved, but they stayed orderly way behind police lines. Bascelija said it is not imposed order but self-discipline. People understood the position we were in, like an enormous concentration camp, a hunting resort where people instead of rabbits are being hunted.