Had a really interesting tour today being shown around the city of Mostar through the eyes of a man who fought in the war defending his city. To be shown around the streets describing the street battle that went on, from one side the Croatians and the other the Serbs. Then there were 60,000 stuck in the middle trying to defend a city both sides wanted.
There are still destroyed buildings next to newly renovated buildings as they wait for funding to get each one completed. It was a very strange and humbling experience especially walking through a cemetery that still exist in the middle of the town with their war dead (at one point the government wanted to move it after the war, but the people objected) as he talks about his friend buried there and where they died.
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No Mostar was a fight between the Croats and Muslims, and has left the city divided, as the war was fought, to this day. The Croats control the west half, and the Muslims the eastern half. The Serbs were kicked out very early in the war (April/May/June 1992), and by October 1992, the Muslims and Croats started fighting with heavy weapons. It was the Croat army which destroyed the original Mostar bridge (which has since been rebuilt).
The Muslim-Croat war had some of the most intense fighting but wasn't well covered. Your narration totally leaves out the Muslim army which was the largest within Bosnia by far - they had up to 200,000 men - several times larger than the Croat and Bosnian Serb forces.
No Mostar was a fight between the Croats and Muslims, and has left the city divided, as the war was fought, to this day. The Croats control the west half, and the Muslims the eastern half. The Serbs were kicked out very early in the war (April/May/June 1992), and by October 1992, the Muslims and Croats started fighting with heavy weapons. It was the Croat army which destroyed the original Mostar bridge (which has since been rebuilt).
The Muslim-Croat war had some of the most intense fighting but wasn't well covered. Your narration totally leaves out the Muslim army which was the largest within Bosnia by far - they had up to 200,000 men - several times larger than the Croat and Bosnian Serb forces.
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