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M I N U T E S T O WA R : Once Upon a Time in Sarajevo<br />
The Siege of Sarajevo<br />
26th October to 3rd December <strong>1995</strong><br />
In which the artist Dominic Ryan after returning to Australia meets again the<br />
Slovenian journalist, Darja Lebar. They decide to enter Sarajevo towards the end of the siege in<br />
october <strong>1995</strong> smuggling a humanitarian billboard carrying a message - we have all suffered<br />
enough into the city. After being temporarily arrested on the grounds of spying for the Serbians<br />
by inadvertently taking photos in a sensitive military area, with the help of the UNPROFOR<br />
French 4th battalion the two along with the French battalion erect the billboard in the destroyed<br />
House of Youth. Ryan is subsequently awarded the Liberty Prize for Human Rights in the EU. He<br />
returns to Australia. Forming a small voluntary group of friends who decide to continue to focus<br />
on conflict resolution in zones of war.