Aftermath: Bosnia's Long Road to Peace: Chapter One: This Peace

$Muslim widow examines body bags containing the remains of recently exhumed victims of the 1992 \{quote}ethnic cleansing\{quote} campaign waged by Serbs against their Muslim neighbors. Exhumations of mass graves began in 1996 and are expected to last for many years to come. Nearly 30,000 Muslims -- most of them civilians -- were listed as missing at the end of the war; most are believed to have been victims of \{quote}ethnic cleansing.\{quote} July 2001$
$Srebrenica widows on board a bus after groundbreaking ceremonies at the site of the memorial planned to commemorate the 7,000 to 8,000 Muslim men and boys who were massacred in July 1995, by Serb forces who overran the U.N. \{quote}safe haven\{quote} of Srebrenica.$
$This man has just helped to exhume his father, eight years after he was killed by Serb neighbors in May 1992. Muslim friends witnessed the killing, and later buried the man\'s father in a shallow grave in the forest of his village. Fearing for their lives, Muslims fled the village in the days that followed. The son was unable to return for his father\'s body until he came back to the remains of his village in 2000, determined to rebuild, along wiht a few former neighbors, and to recover his father\'s remains and bury them in the village cemetery.$
$Hundreds of red roses and carnations thrown in to the Drina river during ceremonies in memory of the approximately 2,000 Muslim men and boys who were killed by Serbs in the town of Visegrad, which had a Muslim majority before the war. The ceremony, held on the bridge made famous by Ivo Andric in his Nobel Prize-winning novel, \{quote}Bridge on the River Drina,\{quote} was attended by scores of Muslims, former residents of Visegrad who were bused in for the ceremony. Few Muslims have returned to their homes in what is now a hardline Serb community.$
$Children play in the river that runs through the village of Vesela, which has had a refugee return rate of some ninety percent of its pre-war population of Muslims, Serbs and Croats. Vesela has been hailed as a sucess story by Bosnian officials; in the aftermath of \{quote}ethnic cleansing\{quote} and genocide many towns and villages remain heavily populated by one group or another, with many refugees reluctant to return to the homes they fled during the war. July 2001.$
$A young boy plays on the recently-laid foundation of his grandparents\' home in a mountain-side village in eastern Bosnia. Muslim villagers were forced to leave by Serbs who were \{quote}cleansing\{quote} the country of Muslims in an attempt to create a greater Serbia, which would join Bosnian Serbs with Serbia, which borders Bosnia to the east. Of the returning refugees in this village, all are elderly. Young people -- including this boy\'s mother -- are starting new lives in the towns where they lived as refugees during the 1992-95 war.$
$Forensic anthropologists lay out the bones of a skeleton exhumed from a mass grave in eastern Bosnia, where Serbs killed thousands of Muslims as part of their \{quote}ethnic cleansing\{quote} campaign in the early months of the 1992-95 war. July 2001.$