In the past, many people have asked me, "What's really going on in Bosnia?" To help answer this question, I have devoted this page entirely to Bosnian history and culture. In it, I will try to explain my perspective of what's happening in Bosnia. My name is Sadik, and I was born in Sarajevo, the beautiful capital city of Bosnia. The winter Olympics were held in my hometown during 1984. Unfortunately, war began in Bosnia,and my family was forced to move to America in 1994. Presently, I am living in California and working on a computer science degree.
 
 

"The years 1992 and 1993 will be remembered as the time in which a unique country was destroyed. It was a land with a political and cultural history unlike any other in Europe, a land where great powers and religions converged, overlapped, and combined: the empires of Rome, Charlemagne, the Ottomans, and the Austro-Hungarias; the faiths of Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Judaism, and Islam. Today, this reach past has become obscured by violence and war, shrouded in a bloody fog of ignorance and misinformation.".... "On 6 April 1992 Bosnia was recognized as an independent state by the EC. That was first time in last 529 years that Bosnia was not apart of two empires, a kingdom and a Communist federal republic. On day of international recognition, Serb paramilitary force repeated the operation which they had aborted in Sarajevo one month before. This time between 50,000 and 100,000 Bosnia's, of all national groups, came out onto the streets in protest. One of speakers said, " Let all the Serbs chauvinists go to Serbia and let the Croat chauvinists go to Croatia. We want to remain here together. We what to keep Bosnia as one."
Taken from BOSNIA A SHORT HISTORY by Noel Malcolm.