Getting
to Mostar took us on a 6-hour bus ride from Split following the river Neretva.
Once in Mostar Pam and I spent 3 days walking the streets of the old town and eating
at some wonderful restaurants and watching divers jump off the 500-year-Old Bridge.
However, we learned the details of the Bosnia war, I would call it a civil war
from 1992 to 1995.
After
the breakup of Yugoslavia into 6 small nations, multiethnic populations were
divided by borders. These ethnic groups
are the Bosnian Muslims, Serbs and Croats. These three groups had been fighting
for years before, but never on this 1992-1995 scale. Bosnia’s Muslims were the
primary victims and Serbs the primary perpetrators, Croats were also among the
victims and perpetrators. Families that
lived next to one another started killing each other, because they were
different. It was originally estimated that at least 200,000 people were killed
and more than 2,000,000 displaced during the 1992–95 war.
Some
of the pictures show bullet holes from the war, our AIRBNB had bullet holes in its
outside wall.
