When entering the city of Sarajevo, shortly before the main street Ferhadija begins, you’ll find a scenery you might well know. On the left side the massive building of the hotel Holiday Inn, behind that the two UNIS towers; on the other side of the road the skyscraper of the Bosnian parliament.
During the siege from 1992 to 1995 this place was frequently in the media. The buildings where hit by shells, mostly damaged and burned down. They became somehow a symbol for the war and generations of people around the world know them.
Today, everything has been restored without changing the structure of the venue. Arriving there feels like travelling back in time. But at the same moment you recognize that even a long war could not destroy the past.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is now an internationally recognized, independent country. The country is still divided in two parts: The Federation of BiH with its government in Sarajevo and the Republika Srpska with its de-facto capital Banja Luka. Not all problems could be solved yet and it will take time to overcome nationalism on the Balkans. But BiH seems to be on a good way.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/sarajevo-rises-from-the-ashes-two-decades-after-the-war/story-e6frg6so-1226319779169
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina
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