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Aftermath: Bosnia's Long Road to Peace: Chapter Six: This Place

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  • A rebuilt store open for business again; the second-floor living quarters remain partly finished, a common sight in Bosnia, even ten years after the end of the war. Many people rely on help from relatives living abroad to rebuild.
  • Tourists taking pictures of the rebuilt Mostar Bridge, the day after dedication ceremonies marking the completion of the work.
  • A red umbrella floats upside down past a group of picknickers.
  • Refugees from Srebrenica, who remain without permanent housing eight years after the end of the war, prepare to move out of one of the \{quote}collective centers,\{quote} which were set up as emergency housing for refugees around the country after the end of the war. The centers were meant to provide temporary housing for three or four months; they are now being closed despite the fact that some 10,000 refugees still have no place to call home.
  • A mother pushes a stroller along one of the pathways of the Sarajevo Zoo. During the early months of the 1992-95 war, the international media covered the death of one of the last surviving animals -- a bear -- prompting an outcry from animal rights activists who demanded an end to the war. Sarajevans, who endured a three-and-a-half-year siege of their city by Serb forces while the international community did little to intervene, still comment wryly about the fact that the deaths of animals in the zoo seemed to create more protests against the war than the deaths of the 10,000 civilians who died during the siege.
  • Roma children, squatting with their families in one of the many buildings riddled by mortars during the siege of Sarajevo, play on a junk-littered sidewalk.
  • A policeman guards the entrance to the newly rebuilt Mostar Bridge the night before dedication ceremonies and the re-opening of the bridge, which was destroyed by Croat forces during the war.
  • The plaza in front of a theatre where the Bosnian version of American Ido was being taped.
  • The film set of director Benjamin Filopovic\'s feature film, \{quote}Well-Tempered Corpses,\{quote} a black comedy scheduled for 2005 release. Bosnia\'s film industry has been thriving in recent years, with many directors making films with war-related themes. April 2004.
  • Dedo Fejzic, in shadow, was one of only a handful of Muslims to have returned to Visegard by the spring of 2002, after being forced out ten years earlier in an \{quote}ethinc cleansing\{quote} campaign by Serbs, which took the lives of some 2,000 Muslim men and boys in the town, including Fejzic\'s brother. Fejzic had filed the legal paperwork necessary to reclaim his tow homes, which had been occupied by refugee Serbs. He had known the Serb owner of this restaurant before the war, and liked him, but was uncomfortable eating there this day. He and his wife were also afraid to go out at night and were uncertain whether they would remain in Visegrad. Within a year, Fejzic and his wife had sold their property to a local Serb and moved to Sarajevo to be closer to their daughter.
  • Backstage at the 2002 Miss Bosnia and Hercegovina contest, held at the Holiday Inn.
  • Schoolchildren on a special dress-up day walk through the town of Prijedor.
  • A scarved mannequin in bacarsija, the old town area of Sarajevo, is a reflection of the increased interest in Islam among many Bosnian Muslims after the war. April 2002.
  • The building in the background was badly damaged during the war and still had not been restored nine years later.
  • Roadside scene, north of the city of Banja Luka. Non-Traditional architectural decorations such as painted columns and swans have become popular among many returning refugees who lived elsewhere during the war. More than 40 percent of the country\'s housing stock was destroyed during the 1992-95 war.
  • A roadside vendor, hoping to attract passing drivers, offers goldfish for sale.
  • Window reflection of a coffeehouse, with a modern painting on the wall of the old Mostar Bridge and the Turkish architects responsible for building it. The laughing man is Iza Lampa, who often sings with the popular Bosnian group, Mostar Sevdah Reunion.
  • Street scene, Sarajevo. March 2004.
  • In the hills above Srebrenica, a Muslim family returns to rebuild a house destroyed during the war. By the year 2000, when record numbers of Bosnians finally felt safe enough to begin returning home, the international community began to suffer \{quote}Bosnia fatigue,\{quote} withdrawing resources and moving to other parts of the world. The result was that only 22 percent of those wanting to return home in 2000 received aid to do so, despite the fact that the right to return home was one of the founding principles of the Dayton Peace accords, which ended the war in late 1995. October 2000.
  • A garden grows again in the Stari Grad (old town) section of Prijedor. The centuries-old Muslim community was completely destroyed in the early months of the 1992-95 war, when Serbs forced Muslims from the city. In the summer of 2000, a small group of Muslims began to return, rebuilding several homes with international aid. Some of those who returned said their Serb neighbors welcomed them back, apologizing for what had been done to the Muslims in 1992.
  • Srebrenica refugees, still without permanent housing eight years after the end of the war, seen through a textured glass window.
  • Street scene, Banja Luka
  • Srebrenica widows head back to Sarajevo after a day spent in Srebrenica, where they had gone to see the homes they were forced to leave in 1995, when Serb forces overran their town and massacred 7,000 to 8,000 men and boys. Most of the widows\' homes were occupied by Serb refugees after the end of the war, and the women were beginning the legal process of reclaiming their property -- and deciding whether they wanted to return to their homes. October 2000.
  • Floodlights illumine part of the old town of Mostar, turning passerby into a blur, during rehearsals for the dedication ceremony of the rebuilt bridge.
  • These picnickers arrived at dawn to stake out the site where they will spend the day eating and drinking as part of Zenica\'s \{quote}cimburijada\{quote} festival, celebrating the first day of spring.
  • The main Serb Orthodox church in Sarajevo is lit by the setting sun. During the 1992-95 siege, Sarajevans respected all the religious and cultural monuments in their city, despite the fact that Serb forces were responsible for the siege. March 2004.
  • From one of the hillsides that climb up from Sarajevo, a man looks out over the city at sunset. July 2004.
  • A Muslim widow gets ready to throw red carnations in to the Drina River, marking the spot where some 2,000 Muslim men and boys were executed during the \{quote}ethnic cleansing\{quote} campaign waged by Serbs against their neighbors in the early months of the 1992-95 war. The bridge, built during the Ottoman Empire, was made famous by the Nobel Prize-winning author Ivo Andric in his book, \{quote}Bridge on the River Drina.\{quote}
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