Bosnia’s Come a Long Way, Don’t Be Fooled by War Memories

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April 9 (Bloomberg) -- There’s been a rash of news coveragelately to mark the 20th anniversary of the start of the siege ofSarajevo, and pretty much all of the reports have followed asimilar pattern.

First, they remind us of just how awful the war was and,more often than not, that the journalist was there to live it.Then they describe today’s Bosnia and Herzegovina as a sad anddivided place, in which children from the different communitiesmostly don’t go to school together.