Guča Madness

Dragačevski sabor trubača, the biggest brass festival in the world, celebrated it's 50th anniversary. During ten days of madness Serbian town Guča hosts almost 600 thousands visitors from all over the world. They had an opportunity to hear 2,000 musicians playing on a brass instruments, including Goran Bregović and the Boban Markovic orchestra. The sound of the trumpet traditionally accompanies every major event in Serbia's life: births, baptisms, weddings, funerals, state and church festivals.

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Never forget Srebrenica

750 newly identified victims from massive graves was burried last Sunday in Srebrenica (Bosna and Herzegovina), where fifteen years ago the biggest genocide in Europe since world war II took place. From 12th to 16th of July 1995 paramilitary troops of Bosnian Serbs leaded by Ratko Mladic killed over 8.000 Muslims protected by dutch UN soldiers. Fifteen years after the war relations between Muslims and Serbs in Bosna are still stained.

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