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Posted: Thu 14:18, 17 Oct 2013
Post subject: Amanpour: Bosnia World Cup qualification R
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This will unite people.
The war tore apart a multi-ethnic population: suddenly Bosnians, Serbs and Croats who had intermingled, inter-married, worked and played together, were at each other’s’ throats. The soccer teams were torn apart, and so were their fans. .
This new generation of Bosnians are mostly too young to have remembered the war. They were only kids when this happened, almost 20 years ago.
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