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December 13, 2013 7:04 pm

Audio slideshow: Zenica partnership helps banish ghosts of Omarska

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The ore that feeds the giant Zenica steel mill in the ethnically Muslim and Croat part of Bosnia-Herzegovina arrives daily by rail from a mine in the autonomous Serb Republic. That mine, at Omarska, was the site of an infamous internment camp where thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Croats were interned by Serb forces during the brutal war that ravaged the country from 1992-95. Can this all-too-rare example of inter-ethnic co-operation and foreign investment in the region point the way to a brighter future?

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