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Article: Smiles amid the ruins for Muslims home at last
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 13, 1996
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EMMA DALY
Ilidza
A curiously festive air swept the looted ruins of Gavrilo
Princip Street in Ilidza yesterday, as dozens of Muslims returned
to their homes, four years after fleeing across the front line to
safety - of a kind - in Sarajevo.
Jasna Hadzimehmedovic marched across the portal of No 15 - the
front door had gone - gazed at the bare walls, marked only with
crayoned graffiti, and wept for her childhood home.
But her parents, Mira and Muhammed, just laughed as they
wandered through rooms stripped of furniture, light fixtures and
plumbing by the Serb family who fled the transfer of authority in
Ilidza yesterday from the Serb-held element of Bosnia to the
Muslim-Croat federation.
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