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Gino Yevdjevich – who goes by “Gino” — is the founder and lead singer of the Seattle-based punk band Kultur Shock.

‘Sing every single song like it’s your last’: How conflict in Sarajevo changed this musician’s life

Movement

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.

A man holds a flag and sticks his arm out of a car window, smiling and celebrating.

Montenegro was a success story in troubled Balkan region – now its democracy is in danger

Conflict & Justice
An illustration shows several bodies layed out in in various positions with one red body.

In the western Balkans, DNA tests help families discover fate of dead relatives

Conflict
woman wearing military fatigues holds a gun

Thousands of ISIS fighters sit in prison. Kurdish leaders call for a special tribunal.

DNA testing in The Hague

Cutting-edge DNA labs help identify people missing in conflicts and disasters

Justice
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Yu-Mex records in Belgrade, Serbia

In mid-’60s Yugoslavia, mariachi music was really popular

Culture

In Cold War Yugoslavia, Mexican mariachi music found a devoted audience.

Two men point and look at a map, in black and white

During WWII, European refugees fled to Syria. Here’s what the camps were like.

Conflict

A rare collection of refugee camp reports chronicle journeys through Turkey and across the Mediterranean by refugees trying to leave Europe.

Gottscheer descendants attend a festival in New York

Each year in New York, Gottscheers celebrate the culture of a city that no longer exists

Culture

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 Kouachi brothers gesture after shooting up the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris last week.

Where did the Paris attackers get their guns?

Justice

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.

People put up a poster of Gavrilo Princip, the 19-year-old Bosnian Serb who gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 and lit the fuse for World War One. The banner says "We Are All Gavrilo."

Why are world maps being rewritten? Consult a book on World War I

Conflict & Justice

In the Middle East, Africa and even possibly the United States, the world created by World War I is starting to unravel. Now resurrecting that century-old history may be the best guide to understanding modern wars.

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