Word: bosnia
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...Southeastern Europe Society (EuroClub) hosted a lecture and round table discussion yesterday on "Bosnia-Herzegovina--Time of War and Peace" with speaker Ivan Bagaric, a member of the Bosnian parliament and of the Interparliamentary Union of Europe...
Striving to overcome his limited English and express himself beyond his written speech, Bagaric, a Bosnian of Croat descent, stressed the importance of interethnic and international exchange among Bosnia's ethnic groups...
...very proud to be part of a group who helped all, regardless of nationality [during the war between the Bosnians and the Serbian Yugoslavs], and do as much good as possible," said Bagaric, who also noted that half of Bosnia's doctors fled during the period...
Countering statements that ethnic Croats desired the break-up of Bosnia, Bagaric said the ethnic Croat representatives actually constituted a crucial part of the two-thirds majority in the 1992 Bosnian declaration of independence...
...collapse of the Soviet Union meant people would have nothing more to fight wars about--was soon disproved. The 1990s have not been short on history. The end of the cold war defrosted earlier rivalries that had been frozen for two generations, bringing bloody history back to places like Bosnia, where it had been in cold storage...