Politics & Government
Vladimir Milojevic, 71, gestures toward downtown Sarajevo from his re-built home on the edge of the city's Jewish Cemetery, April 7, 2012. The mountainside cemetery, which was established in 1630, was a vicious frontline battleground during the Bosnian Serb seige of Sarajevo that began 20 years ago this month. Milojevic's property was part of the Bosnian Serb siege line that ran down his side of the cemetery. The Muslim-dominated Bosnian Army's defensive trenches and bunkers ran down the opposite side of the cemetery. (Jonathan S. Landay/MCT)
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A view of downtown Saraejvo through an opening in a bullet-scarred grave stone in Sarajevo's Jewish cemetery, April 7, 2012. The mountainside cemetery, which was established in 1630, was a vicious frontline battleground during the Bosnian Serb seige of Sarajevo that began 20 years ago this month. (Jonathan S. Landay/MCT)
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Members of Sarajevo's tiny Jewish community, whose ancestors first arrived in the 16th Century, attend a Passover service at the city's main synagogue, April 7, 2012. Twenty years after the war began, Jews, Roma and other minorities suffer official discrimination because the U.S.-brokered post-conflict Constitution established an ethnically based system of government that reserves high political offices for Serbs, Croats and Muslims. (Jonathan S. Landay/MCT)
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A tourist walks down a section of the 3,150-foot tunnel that the defenders of Sarajevo secretly dug under the U.N.-controlled airport during the Bosnian Serb siege that began 20 years ago this month. A cart that ran along the makeshift rails carried food, ammunition, other supplies and the wounded. Electric and water lines ran along the sides. Troops and civilians used the passage to go in and out of Sarajevo. A few yards of the tunnel's entrance in the suburb of Butmir and the house where it is located have been turned into a small museum. (Jonathan S. Landay/MCT)
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An internally displaced Bosniian Serb enters his home, April 5, 2012, in a dilapidated building that once housed the bakery of the former Bosnian Serb army base in the Sarajevo suburb of Lukavica. Some 113,000 people forced from their homes are still living in this and 154 other "collective centers" around the internally divided country 20 years after the war erupted. (Jonathan S. Landay/MCT)
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Dozens of Bosnian Serb, Muslim and Croat veterans who battled each other during the Bosnian war camp out in tents and makeshift shelters in front of the Bosnian Parliament demanding the pensions they are owed after being mandatorily retired more than two years ago, April 7, 2012. Twenty years after the war erupted, Bosnia's equivalent of the Occupy Movement is one of the few examples of cooperation between members of the deeply divided, impoverished country's main ethnic groups. (Jonathan S. Landay/MCT)
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A billboard outside Sarajevo in the Bosnian Serb portion of the country underscores the strong ethnic divisions that haunt the country 20 years after the war began. It congratulates Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on his election as president. Written in the Cyrillic alphabet, it says in Serbian, "Never into NATO, Serbian Brother." Many Serbs consider Russia their closest foreign ally. The picture in the upper right corner is of Vojislav Seselj, a war-time Serbian paramilitary leader on trial in The Hague for alleged war crimes. (Jonathan S. Landay/MCT)
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