SARAJEVO — What do you do when you live in a city struck with an average of 300 mortar shells each day for 1,425 days and at least 500,000 bombs dropped, with snipers in tall buildings that made every nook and cranny unsafe?
A recent trip to Sarajevo , the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe, took me to the War Tunnel Museum and other sites associated with the nearly four-year siege of Sarajevo from April 1992 to February 1996.So far, 11,541 civilians, including 1,601 children, have been documented as having been killed, and more than 50,000 injured in that conflict.
Historical accounts say the Austro-Hungarian government used the assassination as a pretext to mobilize against Serbia, leading to the Austrian army's invasion of Serbia. This, in turn, led to the formation of military alliances throughout Europe, and because European countries had colonies around the world, the conflict spread globally.Almost 30 years after, Sarajevo's battle scars are still all over the place.
'Inexhaustible Well' Of Sarajevo
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