July
– September 1999, text and all pictures by Marcel
Stoessel.
From
the pilgrimage place of Medjugorje, where Catholics from all over the
world pray for peace, I hitchhike down to Mostar, the city of apartheid in
continental Europe. “The weather is strange”, I say to the nice Croat who
gives me a ride down the hills of the Herzegovina, “rain and sunshine at the
same time”. He laughs: “This is the Balkans - crazy!”
Two months in all parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina showed me that the man was right. Please enter by clicking on the above door.
Important Disclaimer: Everything in Bosnia and Herzegovina is divided according to ethnic lines, including the truth. Looking for truth is essential, but almost impossible. I am neither a Bosniak (Muslim), nor a Croat (Catholic), nor a Serb (Orthodox). What you can read here is what I’ve seen, heard, felt and read myself. Don’t expect nothing from this – especially not the truth. The opinions expressed are only mine.
Chapter
1: Medjugorje
– Oasis of Peace
Chapter
2: Mostar
– the City of apartheid
Chapter
3: Sarajevo
– it exists
Chapter
4: One
Day in Srebrenica
Recommendation
for a good translator
NZZ (24/25 February 2001)
Slow Democratisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (English version)
Paper on The Role of the OSCE in Bosnia and Herzegovina (in *.pdf format; very long)
Stoessel Marcel (2001). The Role of the OSCE in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Geneva: IUHEI.
NZZ (Samstag/Sonntag 24./25. Februar 2001),
p.5.
Harzende
Demokratisierung in Bosnien und Herzegowina
(*.html,
*.pdf)
Kasseler Friedensforum
Fünf Jahre nach dem Dayton-Abkommen: Eine ernüchternde Bilanz
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