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| Keywords: Sarajevo Grbavica.JPG View of Grbavica a neighbourhood of Sarajevo approximately 4 months after the signing of the Dayton Peace Accord that officially ended the war in Bosnia This particular scene shows the part of the neighbourhood located by the left bank of Miljacka river near Vrbanja bridge at the point where Zagrebačka Street and Beogradska Street later renamed Emerika Bluma Street meet Throughout the war 1992-1995 Grbavica was held by the forces of Bosnian Serbs In relation to the part of Grbavica shown in the photo Bosnian Muslim Bosniak lines were right across on the Miljacka river's right bank Due to its location in the crossfire between two sides this part of Grbavica was exposed to constant fire and as a result suffered heavy structural damage It was basically uninhabitable throughout the war - most of the apartments in the buildings seen in the photo were empty during the war as their occupants fled early on fearing for their safety These ruins of the apartments and houses were among the last group to be turned over by the Bosnian Serbs to the Bosniaks a k a Bosnian Muslims as required by the Dayton Peace Accord which produced a lasting cease fire and permanent internal borders between two entities - Republika Srpska Serb entity and Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina Muslim-Croat entity The white building whose small part corner can be seen along the photo's left edge housed the state-owned Unioninvest company before the war In the years after the war ended the partially devastated building was rebuilt and to this day houses the Office of the High Representative OHR an ad hoc international institution responsible for overseeing implementation of the Dayton Peace Accord in essence OHR is Bosnia's highest decision-making institutional body with broad powers http //www dodmedia osd mil/DVIC_View/Still_Details cfm SDAN DFST9805440 JPGPath /Assets/Still/1998/Air_Force/DF-ST-98-05440 JPG www dodmedia osd mil 1996-03-09 LT STACEY WYZKOWSKI Public Domain PD-USGov-Military 43 51 10 15 N 18 24 20 07 E region BA_heading SW PD-USGov Siege of Sarajevo Grbavica Sarajevo Ruins of the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo Streets in Sarajevo 1996 in Sarajevo 1996 photographs | ||||
