Aftermath: Bosnia's Long Road to Peace: Chapter Four: Huge Joy

$A girl throws back her head in the rain while waiting for film director Danis Tanovic to appear at a rally in his honor. Tanovic, who won an Oscar a few days earlier for his film about the war in Bosnia, \{quote}No Man\'s Land,\{quote} came home to celebrate, arriving the day before the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the siege of Sarajevo.$
$Muslims and Serbs who have remained friends greet each other in the town of Srebrenica. The Muslims have not yet returned to live in the town, but one man -- whose father and brother were killed by Serbs in the 1995 massacre -- praised his Serb friend, a former colleague of his father\'s. The Serb had helped look out for the Muslim\'s home after the end of the war. \{quote}This man did not kill my father,\{quote} said the Muslim (seated on the bench in the photo). \{quote}If I met the man who did kill them, that would be a different story.\{quote} October 2000.$
$One of Mostar\'s legendary jumpers throws himself from the town\'s famed brdige, which stands more than eighty feet high. Eleven years after the bridge was destroyed during the 1992-95 war, the rebuilt structure was opened to the public after a ceremony that drew many foreign officials, including Prince Charles. Local jumpers and divers wasted no time returning to one of their favorite pasttimes before the war -- collecting change from tourists who watch them jump. Local athletes also used the week to prepare for the 448th annual jumping and diving competition, held the following week.$
$A model walks down the runway during a fashion show staged at midnight on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the siege of Sarajevo. Although there were few events sponsored by the city to mark the occasion, artists and young people -- many of whom lived through the siege as children -- put on the fashion show, which featured clothes worn by famous people during the war, including the beret of former president Alija Izetbegovic, filmmaker Danis Tanovic\'s sleeping bag,a nd the track suits worn by two Olympic athletes who snuck out of Sarajevo during the siege and marched in the opening ceremony of the Barcelona Olympics, to remind the world of the tragedy that was unfolding in Bosnia.$
$Two friends are among the thousands of people who turned out to celebrate \{quote}cimburijada,\{quote} which is held in thet town of Zenica every year on the first day of spring. The celebration begins at dawn when the hardiest revelers turn out to cook scrambled eggs on the banks of the river. As the day proceeds, the festivities become a giant picnic and party. Although locals proudly boast that the tradition is unique to Zenica, and has been observed since the end of World War II, no one seems to know exactly who started it or why.$
$Adela Hrlovic, a high school senior in 2002, lived through the siege of Sarajevo as a child and still remembers things like making salad from grass when there was nothing to eat. Today, she loves \{quote}classic\{quote} movies -- \{quote}Pretty Woman\{quote} is a favorite -- and wishes she could be like Carrie on \{quote}Sex in the City,\{quote} able to buy a $400 pair of shoes on days when she\'s feeling down. Her father wants her to run his successful printing business when she finishes college; Adela wants to see the world.$
$With temperatures topping 100 degrees, shirtless young men sing and drink beer on the days of what locals say was Mostar\'s 448th annual bridge jumping and diving competition. It marked the first time that Mostarians were able to jump from the full height of their beloved bridge since it was destroyed during the war by Bosnian Croat forces. Although locals continued to jump from the remains of the bridge during the war, and later froma temporary bridge built after the war, they had to wait more than a decade before the bridge was rebuilt according to its exact original style and dimensions.$