Reactions to the transmissions were mixed , triggering a media debate concerning the ethical implications of mixing rock entertainment with human tragedy . The Edge said , " A lot of nights it felt like quite an abrupt interruption that was probably not particularly welcomed by a lot of people in the audience . You were grabbed out of a rock concert and given a really strong dose of reality and it was quite hard sometimes to get back to something as frivolous as a show having watched five or ten minutes of real human suffering . " Mullen worried that the band were exploiting the Bosnians ' suffering for entertainment . In 2002 , he said , " I ca n't remember anything more excruciating than those Sarajevo link-ups . It was like throwing a bucket of cold water over everybody . You could see your audience going , ' What the fuck are these guys doing ? ' But I 'm proud to have been a part of a group who were trying to do something . " During a transmission for the band 's concert at Wembley Stadium , three women in Sarajevo told Bono via satellite , " We know you 're not going to do anything for us . You 're going to go back to a rock show . You 're going to forget that we even exist . And we 're all going to die . " Some people close to the band joined the War Child charity project , including Brian Eno . Writer Bill Flanagan believes that the link-ups accomplished Bono 's goal for Zoo TV of " illustrating onstage the obscenity of idly flipping from a war on CNN to rock videos on MTV " . U2 vowed to perform in Sarajevo someday , eventually fulfilling this commitment on their 1997 PopMart Tour
eventually fulfilling this commitment
U2 concert in Sarajevo
Zoo TV Tour