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summer '93 James Mason

five guys

near Vitez, Bosnia

This image has been here on the site for over a year and I haven't been able to write the caption. The kid in the middle was a friend of mine. When I first got to Bosnia he was too young to fight but he had an AK and bits and pieces of uniform. He took me up to the front line and showed me around the Croatian positions. Eventually they decided he was old enough to fight. The guys in charge preferred to use men who had done their time in the Yugoslav Army before the breakup and therefore were well trained for fighting in the mountains. None of these guys had been in the army. About a week after I took the picture this position got overun and all five of them were killed.


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prijatelj 02-Dec-2012 20:55
pozdrav james svi smo hvala bogu živi!!!!!!!!!1
ANTONIO GARCEA 14-May-2010 18:03
no MARINKO vive ancora e sono contentodi averlo conosciuto di personaqui in ITALIA.
forza MARINKO e forza la CROAZIA sempre fino alla morte.
fariz 23-Aug-2007 00:54
what a shame im a muslim and looking al this beautyful young man died what a shit of war was this.so anfair.who in the gods name have rifht to make such ugly crazy decisions to push people to kill people.and yet there is thousands like thison both sides of front line.god rest ther souls in peace.and forgive as al
Mladen 25-May-2007 18:01
this sommer I will find names and others for you mr.James,I m Croat from this area... and like war photography

god bless you
craig spencer 28-Dec-2005 02:03
dont know who the others are and dont have contact details for marinko it is not me in the pinfo although i did seem to spend a lot of time there
James Mason15-Dec-2005 07:07
That's good to hear. Do you know about the others? Or can you ask Marinko? Also, look at the photo of the four guys sitting in the kitchen at the Brit press center. There's a Feed the Children guy there. Is that you? If you can help me with the name of anybody else, please do!