ARBIH, formed in April 1992, managed against all odds to successfully defend the country’s sovereignty. “Even after the aggressor occupied around 70 percent of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the first year of the war, the defenders still occupied the heartland around the Sarajevo-Zenica-Tuzla triangle, with greater resources of manpower than were possessed by the so-called ‘Republika Srpska’.” ‘Insanely brave’ The …
For those who survived the Bosnian war of 1992-1995, the war in Ukraine feels too familiar. “When a child goes through a war trauma, they experience things in a different manner,” explains Selma Bacevac, a psychotherapist focusing on the Balkans who is based in Florida in the United States. child doesn’t remember the time when things were peaceful, nor does …
SARAJEVO, 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 …
