Impossible Dilemma: Witnesses and Evacuation of Slovenians from Sarajevo in November 1992

ABSTRACT

The article is based on a field research among the Slovenians evacuated from Sarajevo by the Slovenian government with a collective Slovenian passport in November 18 and November 20, 1992, on the pre- sumption of their “Slovenian origins”. The author presents the beginning of the war in Sarajevo in 1992 and the context of the evacuation through the perception of some protagonists of the evacuation, Slo- venians from Sarajevo who were interviewed by the athour with the method of oral history interview.

KEY WORDS: Sarajevo, evacuation, Slovenians, war, oral history