Bosnia & Herzegovina 2007

Photos by Adam Jones

The following photos were taken during a ten-day trip
to Bosnia & Herzegovina in July 2007.

Photo Gallery 2 - Postwar Mostar

Mostar was one of the most bitterly-contested sites in the conflict that racked
the former Yugoslavia from 1992 to 1995. First it was besieged by Serb forces; then, after
a combined Croatian-Muslim force fought off the Serbs, the Croatians turned on their former
allies and pounded the Muslim quarters nearly to rubble. This gallery shows some of the still-
visible damage from the conflict. It is "unrepresentative," in that most of the city has
been rebuilt, and these ruins and shell-pocked facades are the exception rather than the rule.
But there are still more of them than I have seen in a city in all my global travels.

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Children play in a public park on the Croatian side of town,
below a shattered and burnt-out ruin.

VIII.

This photo and following: two views of the same edifice
on one of Mostar's main thoroughfares.

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Many structures in Mostar have been repaired, some are still heavily damaged,
and a few -- like this apartment building -- are somewhere in between.

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This photo and following: a graveyard for Muslim casualties
of the war period.

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Tank and artillery shell casings, etched with traditional designs,
on sale in the shop of a local tinsmith.

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Enough said.

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