Bosnia marks 25 years since inking of US-brokered peace deal
Associated PressSARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — As their ethnic leaders gathered around a table outside Dayton, Ohio, to initial a U.S.-brokered peace deal a quarter-century ago, Edisa Sehic and Janko Samoukovic still were enemies in a war in Bosnia that killed over 100,000 people. But more than a generation after the shooting and shelling stopped, full peace still feels elusive in Bosnia, where the April 1992-Dec. 1995 war gave rise to an ethnic cleansing campaign and Europe’s first genocide since World War II. “I hope that we shall be on the agenda of the Biden administration so that we can finally put behind what happened and look into the future,” said Haris Silajdzic, Bosnia’s war-time foreign minister and a Bosniak member of its government’s delegation in Dayton, Ohio, in 1995. While agreeing that only the U.S. can help fix Bosnia’s broken constitution, Mujanovic said real change will also require “the will, the pressure and engagement” of the country’s citizens.
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