Sarajevo Safari is the name for an alleged war tourism phenomenon during the siege of Sarajevo (1992–1996) involving human hunting. According to the reports, wealthy foreign nationals were enabled, for large monetary fees, to shoot at civilians in the besieged city with sniper rifles for entertainment purposes.



I remember writing an essay in school about the war while it was happening. This was pre-internet so our sources were newspapers. The reports from locals and refugees always mentioned the snipers as the worst thing. Civilians were shot down at random. It’s impossible to tell if any particular shot was part of the war or just someone taking the opportunity to shoot down somebody they didn’t like for whatever reason in the first place. There was no real front line, where you could say that the war was fought. It was entire cities all over the country going crazy and just killing their neighbours.
I wouldn’t be surprised about the human-safari being a real thing, but it would’ve been pretty fucking dangerous to do, considering that the entire place was already covered with snipers from both sides of the war.