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Sonia Bakaric
AFP News Desk journalist based in Paris
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Welcome (back) to Hell: war in Ukraine reopens Sarajevo’s scars

Sunday 1 May 2022

The invasion of Ukraine has brought back painful memories for those who lived through the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the bloodiest in Europe since World War II. Thirty years on, the trauma is still raw, writes Sonia Bakaric, who covered the conflict for AFP

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The need for justice

Wednesday 22 November 2017

"It’s been more than 20 years since the end of the war in the former Yugoslavia," writes journalist Sonia Bakaric, today based in Paris.

"The painful memories from covering that savage time have never left me, receding to the back of my mind with the passage of time. But they’ve come back to the surface with a vengeance ahead of the verdict of Ratko Mladic, the 'Butcher of the Balkans,' at the International Tribunal at The Hague."

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