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Sniper Alley
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<h2 id="in-popular-culture">In popular culture</h2> <ul><li>Sniper Alley was fictionally depicted in the film <i><a href="/facts/The_Peacemaker_(1997_film)/NDfrCncJ">The Peacemaker</a></i>.</li> <li>Street is featured in <a href="/facts/Joe_Kubert/Ba1qp3KF">Joe Kubert</a>'s book <i><a href="/facts/Fax_from_Sarajevo/3E1n3UF1">Fax from Sarajevo</a></i>, where it is described as a <a href="/facts/Running_the_gauntlet/BW66K9nm">gauntlet</a>.</li> <li>1997 war film <i><a href="/facts/Welcome_to_Sarajevo/AgKsAytB">Welcome to Sarajevo</a></i> by director <a href="/facts/Michael_Winterbottom/Az6h9dgC">Michael Winterbottom</a> includes several scenes and actual footage of snipers harassing residents of the besieged city.</li> <li>1998 television movie <i><a href="/facts/Shot_Through_the_Heart_(film)/skdPawuA">Shot Through the Heart</a></i> produced by <a href="/facts/HBO/gGSPvEEu">HBO</a>, depicts the story of two lifelong friends and expert sharpshooters, who end up on opposing sides during the <a href="/facts/Siege_of_Sarajevo/1WShkBQ4">Siege of Sarajevo</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Enki_Bilal/TdbHFFWr">Enki Bilal</a> depicted it in the story in the graphic novel <i><a href="/facts/Le_Sommeil_du_monstre/zfEb2Cj0">Le Sommeil du monstre</a></i>.</li> <li>2008 documentary <i><a href="/facts/Shooting_Robert_King/vYyHIyCt">Shooting Robert King</a></i> includes a scene where King mentions that he stood in the middle of Sniper Alley taking pictures unaware of where he was.</li> <li>The 2014 video game <i><a href="/facts/This_War_of_Mine/7gXyJD7a">This War of Mine</a></i> was inspired by the poor living conditions and wartime atrocities that Bosnian civilians endured during the Siege of Sarajevo where the player controls a group of civilian survivors in a makeshift-damaged house.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> Sniper Junction is a location based on Sniper Alley where players have to run across open ground to avoid sniper fire from a hotel. The game itself is fictional, but is a story based on the Bosnian War in Sarajevo.</li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul> <li>Bosnia and Herzegovina portal</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Siege_of_Sarajevo/1WShkBQ4">Siege of Sarajevo</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Urban_warfare/40JjmBT8">Urban warfare</a></li></ul> <p><a href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sniper_Alley¶ms=43.856_N_18.413_E_">43°51′22″N 18°24′47″E / 43.856°N 18.413°E / 43.856; 18.413</a> </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Ridding down Sniper's Alley, The Prague Post, November 10, 1999 <a href="http://www.praguepost.com/archivescontent/31082-ridding-down-sniper-s-alley.html" target="_blank">http://www.praguepost.com/archivescontent/31082-ridding-down-sniper-s-alley.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Mujib Shami, Usman (22 December 2016). "Nawaz Sharif recalls blast in Bosnia that happened before his first trip, remembers infamous 'Sniper Alley'". Daily Pakistan. <a href="https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/22-Dec-2016/nawaz-sharif-recalls-blast-in-bosnia-that-happened-before-his-first-trip-remembers-infamous-sniper-alley" target="_blank">https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/22-Dec-2016/nawaz-sharif-recalls-blast-in-bosnia-that-happened-before-his-first-trip-remembers-infamous-sniper-alley</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Mujib Shami, Usman (22 December 2016). "Nawaz Sharif recalls blast in Bosnia that happened before his first trip, remembers infamous 'Sniper Alley'". Daily Pakistan. <a href="https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/22-Dec-2016/nawaz-sharif-recalls-blast-in-bosnia-that-happened-before-his-first-trip-remembers-infamous-sniper-alley" target="_blank">https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/22-Dec-2016/nawaz-sharif-recalls-blast-in-bosnia-that-happened-before-his-first-trip-remembers-infamous-sniper-alley</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Face of Mercy, Face of Hate - Sarajevo Survival Map". Minnesota Public Radio. 1992-04-06. Retrieved 2012-04-05. <a href="http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/199609/08_smiths_bosnia/docs/bosnia3ax.htm" target="_blank">http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/199609/08_smiths_bosnia/docs/bosnia3ax.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Watch Shot Through The Heart". MSN.com. Archived from the original on 25 September 2022. Retrieved 25 September 2022. <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/rf-watch-online/movies/shot-through-the-heart?adlt=strict&toWww=1&redig=F402AF21126C47CFB7B6F6E480D8AB86" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/rf-watch-online/movies/shot-through-the-heart?adlt=strict&toWww=1&redig=F402AF21126C47CFB7B6F6E480D8AB86</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>This War of Mine Launch Trailer – The Survivor, archived from the original on 28 December 2015, retrieved 2022-03-07 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gotK5DLdVvI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gotK5DLdVvI</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"A Review of "This War of Mine" by a Survivor of the Siege of Sarajevo". Solidarity Policy Center. 2021-09-06. Archived from the original on 7 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-03-07. <a href="https://www.solidaritypolicy.org/this-war-of-mine/" target="_blank">https://www.solidaritypolicy.org/this-war-of-mine/</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>