War Child and the Bosnian war 15 years on

At the height of the Bosnian war, amid a hurricane of killing, rape and 'ethnic cleansing', a movement striving in the opposite direction responded in the most powerful way they knew: with rock'n'roll. Fifteen years since War Child's Help LP, key figures reflect on the war – and musicJasmin Elezovic picks up his guitar and sings another song – it is late, but what the hell. A caustic love song called "Usne Vrele Visnje" (Hot Cherry Lips), typical of a band called Azra, with a yearning intens...

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