A decade after the Dayton peace accords, Bosnia-Herzegovina remains a powerful symbol of the bitter deprivations and atrocious crimes of civil war.

The plan to redefine a Bosnian state, divided between a Serb zone and a Moslem-Croat federation, was agreed in 1995 after three weeks of intense and secretive negotiations at a US air force base in Dayton, Ohio. They had looked close to breakdown until the last moment.