Travel Reference
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With a shrapnel souvenir embedded in her back, this shop-keeper will forever feel the
pain of a senseless war.
The sentiment I hear from locals when I visit this region is, “I don't know how we
could have been so stupid to wage that unnecessary war.” I've never met anyone here who
called the war anything but a tragic mistake. The lesson I learned from their mistake is the
importance of taking pluralism within your society seriously. While Bosnian sectarianism
is extreme, every society has groups that could come to blows. And failing to find a way
to live peacefully together—as the people of Mostar learned—means everybody loses.
