20 Years since the Bosnian War

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20 Years since the Bosnian War

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During the Bosnian War, cellist Vedran Smailovic plays Strauss inside the bombed-out National Library in Sarajevo, on September 12, 1992. (Michael Evstafiev/AFP/Getty Images)


A former sniper position on the slopes of mount Trebevic gives a view of Bosnian capital Sarajevo, seen on April 2, 2012. (Elvis Barukcic/AFP/Getty Images)


A Bosnian special forces soldier returns fire in downtown Sarajevo as he and civilians come under fire from Serbian snipers, on April 6, 1992. The Serbs were shooting from the roof of a hotel at a peace demonstration of some of 30,000 people as fighting between Bosnian and Serb fighters escalated in the capital of Bosnia-Hercegovina. (Mike Persson/AFP/Getty Images)

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Smoke and flames rise from houses set on fire by heavy fighting between Bosnian Serbs and Muslims in the village of Ljuta on Mount Igman some 40km southwest from the besieged Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, on July 22, 1993. (Reuters/Stringer)


On her way home in afternoon on Thursday, April 8, 1993 in Sarajevo, a Bosnian woman rushes down an empty sidewalk past war-destroyed shops in one of the worst sections of the so-called "Sniper Alley." (AP Photo/Michael Stravato)


The "Momo" and "Uzeir" twin towers burn on Sniper Alley in downtown Sarajevo as heavy shelling and fighting raged throughout the Bosnian capital on June 08, 1992. (Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images)


French troops of the United Nations patrol in front of the destroyed mosque of Ahinici, near Vitez, northwest of Sarajevo, on April 27, 1993. This Muslim town was destroyed during fighting between Croatian and Muslim forces in central Bosnia.(Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images)

Before After

This before/after photo pair shows a United Nations peacekeeper stands at theconstruction site of a shelter in front of the damaged United Investment andTrading Company (UNITIC) Towers, and an Orthodox church in Sarajevo, in thispicture taken in March 1993, and cars pass by the renovated towers, on April 1,2012. (Reuters/Danilo Krstanovic and Dado Ruvic)

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More than 11,000 red chairs, symbolizing 11,541 victim of the siege, lined Sarajevo's main avenue on Friday as Bosnians marked the 20th anniversary of the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II with songs and remembrance. (Elvis Barukcic/AFP/Getty Images)

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The symbolic memorial in Sarajevo to honor of the 700,000 civilian deaths

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Remnants of a bomb shelling in the parking lot of the National Bosnian Museum.

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The active Mine Action Team consists of a group of men and women who field areas for any undetonated bombs from the Bosnian siege.

20 Years since the Bosnian War

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