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Tutundzic, 69, is standing in the mud on the banks of the Miljacka River, where scores of people have come to collect water. She is crying. Clad in a black skirt and green woolen jacket, with her hair tied back with a ribbon, she has dressed as if she might be going to lunch with friends. To get there she walked along the airport road dubbed Snipers' Alley, and she does not flinch at the crack of rifle fire and the occasional thud of exploding shells. "I have seven people at home, and my friend was supposed to meet...
...Renault sedan scurries across the Miljacka River on the little bridge where Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. A brainless loop of history: the 20th century, after all its adventures, has arrived back in Sarajevo again, working on blood feuds and apocalypses. Lessons learned: possibly none...
...restaurant and bar by the Miljacka River, Ferid Sultanovic settles his ex-weightlifter's girth at a returning visitor's table and tenders a drink on the house. "There have been many changes, but it is the mentality that counts," he says. "We are an openhearted people, and perhaps the world came to know this from the Olympics. Many years will pass, but I do not think the people will change inside...
...most famous spot in Sarajevo, where the Appel Quay once met the Latin Bridge that crossed the gentle Miljacka River, there now stand two footprints embedded in the concrete sidewalk. The bridge today is called the Princip Bridge, for these two footprints mark the place where Gavrilo Princip, a gaunt, sallow student of 19, stood and fired the pistol shots that, as one historian put it, took seven million lives...
...same time, while a requiem mass was being sung in St. Stefan's at Vienna, Monarchists mourned the dead Archduke near the bridge over the Miljacka...