ENIGMA VARIATIONS IN SARAJEVO

	Vedran Smajlovic, cellist and last survivor from a Sarajevo quartet.
Camp stool In the street Rubble-strewn And smoking still. He     sits,     adjusts The music stand And plays.	"Most businesses are based on rational principles, but this operation is based on emotion" said Darko Mihajlovic, an engineer, grinning as Sarajevo's trams started to run again in the shelled streets — 2.3.94".
Like some Pied Piper, Calls them out. In drifting droves, Young, old, men, women, Come where music Evokes peace And glories past For future views, By different ways.	Rattling trams Proclaim, Bravely, The same Bravado Hopes.
Many birds annually Migrate. It took the Sarajevo Jews 500 years Before they felt the need To leave     before it was too late.	"They left 10 days later in a convoy. We all knew at that moment that the West had already signed our city's death warrant." — Dzevad Karahasan, 8.7.93.
Sarajevo pre-dated European dreams by half a century. Maastricht's hopes were brittled when Sarajevo fell.	"We in Sarajevo know that, after this war, the project of a united Europe is a cynical joke." — Dzevad Karahasan, 8.7.93.

ALAN R. GAWITH

The photograph is © Roger Richards
whose gallery of images from the Sarajevo siege can be seen on the Digital Film-maker website

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