25 years after peace deal, Bosnia endures division and stagnation


  • World
  • Friday, 20 Nov 2020

Aerial view of the city Brcko, Bosnia and Herzegovina November 17, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

BRCKO, Bosnia (Reuters) - Mirsad Zahirovic is a university-educated journalist and activist who moonlights as a waiter because he is not a member of one of the ruling political parties, which is almost the only way to get a job in his native Bosnia.

The 28-year-old belongs to "the children of Dayton", a generation named after the peace agreement signed 25 years ago at a U.S. air force base in Dayton, Ohio. The accord ended three-and-a-half years of ethnic warfare in Bosnia that killed 100,000 people and forced 2 million from their homes.

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