Zbogom oružje

Збогом оружје
Studio album by Баја Мали Книнџа
Released	December 1995 (1995-12)
Genre	Novokompovana
Label	SuperTon
Producer	Цветин Тодоровић
Баја Мали Книнџа chronology
Идемо даље (1995) Збогом оружје (1995) Ne dirajte njega (1997)

Zbogom oružje (Serbian Cyrillic: Збогом оружје, lit. "Farewell to Arms") is the tenth studio album by Baja Mali Knindža, released late 1995, by SuperTon. It would be the last album Baja would make over the course of the war and would not make another patriotic album until 1999's Biti il' ne biti. The album itself is a commentary on the end of the war with direct mentions of the Dayton Accords and the fate of Krajina.

Background

In late August of 1995, after Sarajevo fell, American diplomat Richard Holbrooke would attempt to get all parties in Geneva for peace negotiations. After a successful attempt at getting a signed agreement of a ceasefire the following month, he, along with other international officials would host a peace conference on the 1st of November to finalize negotiations and end the war. While talks were finished on the 22nd of November, the agreement, formally titled the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, would be finalized on December 14th in Paris, France. It would be referred to as the Dayton Accords or the Dayton Agreement since the conference and the agreement took place at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.

The title track, "Zbogom oružje" would be dedicated to Jovi Kalabi, who gave Baja moral support during the development of Još se ništa ne zna two years prior. The album would also have a folk version of the Vatreni Poljubac song "Iz inata", reworked to better fit Baja's style and the subject matter of the album. The song would also be a duet with Srećko Ćosić. Bora Čorba would work once more with Baja on the song "Ne stavljaj me so na ranu".

Release

Zbogom oružje was released late 1995, by SuperTon. While the exact date is unknown, it is one of the last albums released for that year. With mention of the peace accords with the song title "Dejton - Ohajo" and the first line of the song being "In November, '95", development of the album could have started as early as late November, when the Accords were finalized, but not yet signed or late December, some time after the 14th when the Accords were finalized and implementation of the agreement began.