...1997's Welcome to Sarajevo, supposed to be an indictment of journalists who practiced indifference in the face of murder. In reality, it was the "advocacy journalism" – not indifference – that made the Bosnian War so dirty, with suffering and death deliberately provoked with the purpose of feeding Western cameras. This is not the only cliché Welcome to Sarajevo peddles shamelessly: there are massacres and "concentration camps" as well. Finally, the focus of one reporter's crusade – a young orphan he fights to rescue from the besieged city despite the policy banning all evacuations – is a Muslim. Yet the real girl, on whose story the movie is (very) loosely based, was a Serb.
The real girl that the story is based on is named Natasha - "Natasha's Story" by Michael Nicholson. "Natasha" is not a Muslim name. It makes you wonder if the movie switched the ethnic identity of other victims or villains. And so the plight of a Serb orphan was used to demonize the Serbs.
makes one wonder how many press reports were modified to give Muslim names to Christian victims.