Bosnia: After the War Without End

摘要

"Peace is back. People want it." says Hamud, a teenager who lived through the siege of Sarajevo from 1992 through 1995. The city, ringed by mountains, had come under attack by nationalist Bosnian Serbs after Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia. The victims were Bosnian Muslims, Croats, Serbs loyal to the Bosnian government, and a small community of Sephardic Jews. As the city echoed with exploding mortar rounds and artillery and sniper fire, Hamud spent days and nights huddled with a score of other people in a tiny underground bunker. Even now, gunfire may be heard in the hills, and scarcely a week goes by that someone doesn't die from a mine concealed inside or on the outskirts of the city.