Watching Ukraine, Bosnians relive the trauma of their war
Bosnian Serb forces laid siege to Sarajevo in the early 1990s. Some 350,000 people were trapped, subjected to daily shelling and cut off from regular access to electricity, food and medicine.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — News reports from Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities under unrelenting bombardment by the Russian Army have been triggering painful memories among the survivors of the 1990s siege of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo.
And yet, many have been spending hours on end glued to their TV screens since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine late last month.
"Not so long ago, we were them," said Amra Muftic who survived the 1992-95 siege, watching news reports
