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Bosnia Remembers Sarajevo, 20 Years Later

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W 040612 SarajevoJPG?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1333717102042Clark Bentson/ABC News(SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina) — Bosnia on Friday is remembering the 20th anniversary of the start of a civil war that saw the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II.

Exhibitions, concerts and performances will be held in Sarajevo to commemorate the 44-month siege that began on April 6, 1992 and displaced millions. 

Hundreds of rows of empty red chairs — 11,541 in all — have been laid out through the town’s center to represent every person who was killed in the war.  A section of tiny chairs was also installed to honor the hundreds of children who died.

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