How Bosnia and Herzegovina's post-war generation is dealing with the past
Bosnia and Herzegovina is home to three ethnic groups who were at the core of one of the deadliest conflicts on European soil since World War II. Twenty-seven years after that war, Selma and Danilo, who belong to different ethnic communities, talk about what it's like to build a future in a country that hasn't entirely dealt with its past.
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Selma and Danilo belong to two of the three ethnicites making up Bosnia and Herzegovina's population. To this day, ethnicity is tightly linked to religious denomination: the Balkan country is home to Bosniak Muslims, Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats.
Following the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the groups fought a civil war: between 1992 and 1995, 100,000 people died and millions were displaced.
The past, with its convictions for genocide and war crimes, still cast a shadow on the country's unity. The ENTR team went to Sarajevo and Banja Luka to meet the post-war generation left to build their country's future without sharing the same version of the past.
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