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Relatives of 121 Bosniaks who were killed in June 1992 in the Kalinovik area marked the 30th anniversary by walking between the sites where their loved ones died.

With a cast and crew from across the Balkans, Italy and France, a new play takes on the controversy surrounding Peter Handke’s 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature and asks, ‘Can we separate the art from the artist?’

A year after the release of ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’, director Jasmila Zbanic is still trying to get her film about the Srebrenica genocide shown in Serbia and Republika Srpska, despite the efforts of nationalists to stop it.

After police refused to permit a march to mark White Ribbon Day, the anniversary of the start of ethnic persecution in the Prijedor area in 1992, people gathered in a city square to commemorate the victims.

Despite shelling and sniper fire, Sarajevo’s sportsmen and women kept on training throughout the 1992-95 siege of the city, and even managed to represent Bosnia at international tournaments.

For families still searching for loved ones who went missing in wartime Sarajevo, the 30th anniversary of the start of the siege of the capital is a painful reminder that three decades of hope and anguish have passed.

When the first barricades went up in Sarajevo amid a dispute over Bosnia’s independence referendum, few thought war would start – but by April 1992, the 44-month siege of the city was underway, recalls Marcus Tanner, who witnessed the escalating conflict.

Brutal attacks by warlord Arkan’s Serb paramilitaries on unarmed civilians living in the city of Bijeljina, captured in photographs that shocked the world, signalled the start of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina 30 years ago.

The investigation of the murder of six men near the town of Velika Kladusa in 1994 has been bounced around between prosecutor’s offices for the past 17 years – and no one has yet been indicted.