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War
Take a walk through the centre of Sarajevo, and even fifteen years after the war ended in 1995, bullet-holes, pockmarked pavements hit by mortar and artillery blasts, and the occasional shredded building that has not been renovated or demolished are all around you. Look down at the pavement when you walk: you’ll see many a familiar shape of a large ‘bears’ paw,’ the residue of an explosive mortar impact on the ground: fading, pink plastic has been poured into some of them to preserve the shape for posterity, sites that are known as ‘Sarajevo roses.’
The war in Bosnia saw 100,000 people die, a million people displaced or turned into refugees before NATO troops, and massive international humanitarian intervention, flooded into Bosnia to try and re-construct the country after the Dayton Peace Accords were signed in 1995.