The Minds Behind Human Safaris Run The World

Nov 17, 2025

Bowne Report

In the hellish theater of the 1992-1996 Siege of Sarajevo, the longest urban siege in the history of modern warfare, a grotesque sideshow allegedly unfolded. Reportedly wealthy foreigners, Italians, Americans, Russians, Canadians, allegedly shelled out £70,000 to £88,000 per jaunt, flying from Trieste to Belgrade, then helicoptered to sniper nests in the hills above Sarajevo. Guided by Serbian State Security operatives like the convicted war criminal Jovica Stanišić, they took aim at unarmed women, men, and children scurrying along Sniper Alley, with premium fees tacked on for the "trophy" of a child's kill. A Slovenian intelligence officer recount the nonchalance of these "hunters," dressed in tactical gear, rotating positions like big game enthusiasts, firing chest or headshots for the rush, then jetting home to martinis and alibis.

Commodified murder, a paid perversion that scarred Bosnia's capital. Eyewitness accounts from the era, resurfaced in Italian prosecutor Alessandro Gobbis's ongoing Milan investigation, peeling back layers of complicity that reek of untouchable privilege.

Former U.S. Marine John Jordan, testifying at The Hague in 2007, described the deliberate targeting of the vulnerable, "If a family was walking, it would be the youngest" and spotted these foreign "shooter tourists" lurking in Grbavica, armed with hunting rifles, guided by locals, their civilian garb a thin veil over bloodlust.

Bosnian intelligence officer Edin Subašić, capturing a Serbian soldier in 1993, uncovered the operation's logistics, weekend rotations, spotters calling shots, victims priced like quarry at auction. Italian military intelligence (Sismi) confirmed the trips in 1994 after Subašić's tip off, halting them within months, yet no prosecutions followed, until now, with journalist Ezio Gavazzeni's 17-page dossier naming five Italian suspects and demanding accountability for this "peak of depravity."

U.S. Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna has launched a parallel probe into American involvement, vowing to drag any implicated elites into the light. This Sarajevo abomination didn't slither from the ether, it's a venomous thread where the powerful have long stalked the powerless for sport, their wealth a license to dehumanize.

Echoes of this horror resound from ancient Sparta's Krypteia, to the 19th-century Selk'nam genocide in Tierra del Fuego. In the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), sons of wealthy landowners galloped after peasants on horseback, slaughtering them in mock "agrarian reform" hunts, their laughter mingling with the dying. Even Robert Hansen's 1970s Alaskan abductions, sex workers released into the woods for him to track and kill like elk, mirror this paid savagery on a personal scale.

Throughout the 20th century, persistent rumors alleged that European royalty and high aristocracy participated in clandestine human hunts on private estates, treating poachers, trespassers, or abducted locals as live quarry in macabre rituals echoing medieval traditions.

Only disappearances and no prosecutions or verified bodies ever materialized, yet the pattern, remote land, absolute privacy, and elite impunity. Mirrors the Sarajevo safaris, suggesting a continuum of aristocratic blood sport shielded by wealth and silence.