Bosnia and Herzegovina is home to three ethnic groups that have been at the heart of one of the deadliest conflicts on European soil since World War II. Twenty-seven years after that war, Selma and Danilo, who belong to different ethnic communities, talk about what it means to build a future in a country that has not fully faced its past.
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Selma and Danilo belong to two of the three ethnic groups making up the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Even today, ethnicity is closely linked to religious denomination: this Balkan country is home to Bosnian Muslims, Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats.
Following the dissolution of Yugoslaviathe groups fought a civil war: between 1992 and 1995, 100,000 people died and millions were displaced.
The past, with its convictions for genocide and war crimes, still cast a shadow over the unity of the country. The ENTR team traveled to Sarajevo and Banja Luka to meet the post-war generation left to build their country’s future without sharing the same version of the past.
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