Thirty years ago, war raged in the city of Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia, where Gino Yevdjevich was once a pop artist. In our latest segment of “Movement,” our series on music and migration, we hear how this conflict changed Gino’s life and led him to create the Seattle-based punk band Kultur Shock.
Gottscheers are a small immigrant group in the US. The thing is, their homeland doesn’t exist anymore. They come from a German speaking city in what is now Slovenia. And the whole community was uprooted after World War II. Here’s what’s left of Gottschee in New York.
The attacks in Paris last week were carried out with automatic weapons, including a variant of the AK47. These kinds of weapons are very difficult to obtain legally anywhere in the European Union, which has led many to wonder where the accused attackers got their weapons.