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United Nations Television (UNTV) operated from its base in Zagreb between 1994-1996 under the United Nation's peacekeeping mandate in Former Yugoslavia. The unit regularly produced (in all the appropriate languages) short programmes which were offered without charge for broadcast on television stations in the region on the sole condition that they were screened unaltered. Several of these programmes included 'video letters' in which local people communicated with friends and relatives from whom they had become separated because of the conflict. One example of these 'video letters' is this broadcast from a Croat refugee named Draga, who sends a message from a refugee camp in Serbia to her friend Nada explaining why she feels she can never return to Mostar, where the shattered bridge and damaged buildings show only too clearly the breakdown of the old tolerance. Nada saw Draga's video letter and sent her own video letter in reply. These broadcasts offer a very moving and powerful representation of the personal consequences of the war in Bosnia. The ‘video letter’ format shows ordinary people telling their own stories, and stands in stark contrast to the official nationalist propaganda often generated during war-time. Also in the Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive collection are collections of material from other recent conflicts such as ITN material on the Falklands war, and official and commercial material on the Gulf War of 1991, including television news and documentary programmes recorded off-air from UK terrestrial television. |
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