Ajvatovica

Ajvatovica is the largest Islamic traditional, religious and cultural event in Europe. Muslims from around the world gathered here, as it is the most important Islamic shrine in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was named after Ajvaz-dedo who was a devout Muslim.
Every year in June, thousands of Muslims gather at the holy site at Ajvatovica near the village of Prusac. According to legend, Prusac had problems with water supply.
Ajvaz-dedo found a water spring near Prusac, but it was blocked with a 74 meters long rock. Ajvaz-dedo spent 40 days praying to Allah to split the rock. On the fortieth morning ... read more
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11,541 red chairs

Red chairs are displayed along a main street in Sarajevo as the city marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Bosnian war. City officials have lined up 11,541 red chairs arranged in 825 rows along the main street that now looks like a red river representing the 11,541 Sarajevans who were killed during the siege.
The Bosnia war, led to the death of at least one-hundred thousand Bosnian citizens and displacement of hundreds of thousands of others, many of them Women and children.
The destructive war began in 1992 and lasted till the late 1995, during the breaking up of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
During the war, the capital city of Sarajevo experienced a 43-months period of siege, by the Serb forces along with the Yugoslav People’s Army, which is considered to be the second longest besieging of a city in the modern history of warfare after the Gaza Strip siege by the Israeli forces.
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Serb hunter in captivity

In this Aug. 5, 2003, file photo, forensic experts, members of the International Commission on Missing Persons in Bosnia, inspect remains found at a mass grave near the eastern Bosnian village of Memici, 50 miles northeast of Sarajevo. (Amel Emric/Associated Press)
They are believed to be some of the 8,000 missing persons who fled Srebrenica in July 1995. Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic was arrested in Serbia on May 26, 2011, after being found in a farmhouse owned by a cousin.
The former Bosnian Serb general is accused of overseeing the worst massacre in Europe since the end of World War II. He was indicted 16 years ago for his role in the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebenica and for war crimes in the four-year siege of Sarajevo that killed 10,000, including 1,500 children. He will face genocide charges in The Hague. The arrest is a reminder of the atrocities that occurred during the Balkan conflict. (41 photos total)