DELMI ALVAREZ
Yugoslavia
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Soldiers ready to war in a training in Parga, Galicia. A granate exploted in  a wall in Osijek. A soldier is died in the morgue in Osijek Hospital. A woman and her daughter get protection of Civil croatian civil police during a bombardment in Vukovar. A man cross the bridge collapsed in Petrinja, Croatia
Yugoslavia war
In 30th of august of 1991. The serbians tanks entry in the Zagreb airport. I arrived to Belgrad where I knew to Julio Fuentes [he was killed in Afganistan war years later] my master in the war. Together we travelling around the killing fields of Vukovar and Osijek, sharing the journeys, the fear and the shelter times . Many journalists went to this war to tell the true. Many of them was killed, lookin for the true,  the same of women, children and other innocent humans. 
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In june of 1991 all newspapers and media announced a war in Yugoslavia. I arrived to Belgrad in august on assignment for a galician newspaper. There I found to Julio Fuentes, journalist of El Mundo. Together we travel around the killing fields of Croatia.
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War Games Without understand too much the war, the young professional soldiers trained to go to the real war. Many of them are in the Army because need a job and get mobey for their families, or not, only beacuse likes the army. Before go to the battle ground they received a special trainning and what they can survive in the middle of a forest, or use the knife to kill the enemy.
Girls and boys, together think that the war are a stupid think but in other case they said that all countries need a army.
This pictures was taken in Parga, near Lugo, in Galicia, northwestern Spain.
The Killing fields.
In the picture of left a woman cry during a funeral in Pradanska Slatina where was killed old people in th a small village called Cetekovca. "The chetniks arrive in the morning early" said a old surviver, "and then they was killing one by one in cutting the heads with a knife or shoting outside homes. It was terrible and I was hide inside the shit of my pigs for one day". In center picture, photojournalist shooting to a woman that lost all family in a granate explosion in Sarajevo. Righ picture, a truck with the bodies killed of soldiers and old women.
The world forgot Yugoslavia name.
Doctors in a cirurgy season in old hospital of Mostar. "The world forget us" told me a doctor one morning while he was trying to save a leg of a man. Medicins, food, and other helps can not entry in Mostar because the Serbians and fascists croats was bombing all the time the roads and killed everybody that try to help them.
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Crimes of War.
The Spanish Legion entry in Mostar and they find a small village with people,that dont have anything to eat, and the hospital was without morfin and other drugs for the injured. In the picture of centre, Arijana, a girl that was injured by a granate in Mostar. Her mother died. She lost a leg, and other vital organs of the body.
Without family
A child is looking by window in a orphans hospital in Sarajevo.
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