TORONTO – “Suddenly it gets night, the cold wedges raw, the city trembles, bruises trembles. The fires rise to the sky, the fires rise in gloomy flames.” Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, with these words contained in the 1996 song Cupe Vampe (Gloomy Flames), had described the agony and suffering of Sarajevo during the long and brutal siege, one of the most tragic episodes of the Balkan War of the nineties.
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