AN EVENT is set to go ahead live and in-person in June to support a local cause featuring a historian and a journalist. Bridport Refugee Support Campaign will host ‘Jane Marchese Robinson - Seeking Sanctuary - a history of refugees in Britain’ on Thursday, June 17 from 6.30pm. As part of Refugee Week 2021, writer and historian Jane Marchese Robinson will come to Bridport to talk about her book, Seeking Sanctuary, which focuses on the history of refugees in Great Britain. Jane will be discussing the book and the inspiration behind it with former BBC foreign correspondent Martin Dawes. The event will take place in the Chapel in the Garden, and will raise funds for the Bridport Refugee Support Campaign, which is helping a refugee family settle in Bridport and rebuild their lives.
This month marks 29 years since the beginning of the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the siege of Sarajevo, during which the city was militarily encircled and subjected to daily sniping, mortaring and shelling, first by the the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) and subsequently by the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS).
The siege lasted 1,425 days, making it the longest siege in modern history, and killed more than 11,000 people. Many of the city’s most important cultural institutions, historical monuments, sporting venues and the wider social and economic infrastructure were destroyed or seriously damaged. Ordinary citizens, already suffering the privations caused by the cutting-off of gas, electricity and water supplies, were not only caught in the crossfire but deliberately targeted by shell and sniper fire.
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