Three decades after peace deal, Bosnia still struggles with division

SARAJEVO/BRCKO: Franjo Sola remembers November 21, 1995, as the best day of his life, when a US-brokered peace deal ended war in Bosnia and allowed him to leave the army and return to his studies at Sarajevo University. “I swore to myself that I will celebrate it as my second birthday,” Sola said this week as the Balkan country marks the 30th anniversary of the Dayton peace accord that halted an ethnic conflict between Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks that killed some 100,000 people after Bosnia declared independence from Yugoslavia. Since then, however, Sola’s optimism has faded.

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