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Cake day: August 29th, 2025

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  • However, members of the British forces who served in Sarajevo in the 1990s have told the BBC that they never heard of any so-called “sniper tourism” during the Bosnian conflict.

    They indicated that any attempts to bring in people from third countries who had paid to shoot at civilians in Sarajevo would have been “logistically difficult to accomplish”, due to the proliferation of checkpoints.

    British forces served both inside Sarajevo and in the areas surrounding the city, where Serb forces were stationed and they saw nothing at the time to suggest that “sniper tourism” was taking place.

    One soldier described the allegations that foreigners had paid to shoot at civilians as an “urban myth”.

    They should probably open with this. Especially since these days most people only read headlines





  • the young people ‘coming to Berlin’

    I am from Switzerland, so I don’t have the full picture, but I do remember that eastern (ex-communist) germany, where berlin is located, has/had a huge problem with people from the countryside fleeing to westgermany or the cities.

    It was once so bad that a (i think government-) commission recommended giving up the villages completely and only focus on the cities. Which was received as well as you imagine it.

    This is btw also a reason why the extreme right is so popular in eastern germany. All those with a more liberal mindset have fled. Definitely not the only reason, but one of them.

    But yeah, this guy is just full of hot air.