On Dec. 14, 23 years ago, a U.S.-brokered peace deal that ended the Bosnian War was signed in Paris. The so-called Dayton Agreement ended almost four years of a bloody ethnic conflict.
For most people, the word “Bosnia” conjures up memories of the heart-breaking footage during the 1990s Bosnian War. And beyond that, most people know little else about this mysterious country.
It has been 20 years since Bosnian Serb forces killed and secretly buried more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys over three tragic days in Srebrenica. The awful event is the only legally recognized genocide to have taken place in Europe since World War II.