‘I get so tired of this endless ethno-nationalism,’ a young man in Sarajevo told me, 30 years after the war in Bosnia was declared over. ‘It’s as if we can’t look to the future but are forever hostages to the past.’
The war killed more than 100,000 people, and its underlying sectarian divisions are still far from resolved. November marks the anniversary of the 1995 Dayton Peace Accord, an agreement thrashed out at a US Air Force Base in Ohio. Sixty thousand peacekeepers were sent to make it stick alongside an international High Representative who could impose laws to oversee the deal.
