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Bringing Bosnia Home | Ten Year Later
Hundreds of St. Louis Muslims are leaving to revisit a Bosnian town that was once called a “safe haven,” but will be remembered as anything but. Ten years ago — July 11, 1995 — Serb forces ambushed and murdered 7,000 Muslim men and boys as they tried to escape. The genocide prompted an exodous with many families finding their way to St. Louis. Now they are going back to remember those they lost.

Memorial Service at Potocari
Finally resting in peace
Monday marked 10 years since the massacre of more than 1,700 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica. The father of Hasiba Husic of St. Louis was one of 581 victims buried Monday. [more]
Bosnians in St. Louis
Bringing Bosnia Home: Dining Out
A continuing look at Bosnian immigrants in St. Louis. [more]
Bringing Bosnia Home: Social Life
A continuing look at Bosnian immigrants in St. Louis. [more]
Bringing Bosnia Home: Sports
A continuing look at Bosnian immigrants in St. Louis. [more]
Bringing Bosnia Home: Success
A continuing look at Bosnian immigrants in St. Louis: Jasna Mruckovski is moving on up, and so are many of her customers. [more]
Bringing Bosnia Home: Recreation
BRINGING BOSNIA HOME A continuing look at Bosnian immigrants in St. Louis [more]
Bringing Bosnia Home: Nightlife
A look at Bosnian immigrants in St. Louis. [more]
Bringing Bosnia Home: Freedom
A look at Bosnian immigrants in St. Louis. [more]
Bringing Bosnia Home: The Media
A look at Bosnian immigrants in St. Louis. [more]
Bringing Bosnia Home: Religion
Back to Bosnia: St. Louis Muslim families reunite with those they left behind and remember loved ones they lost at the massacre at Srebrenica. [more]
Bringing Bosnia Home: Enterprise
Immigrant Alem Boric sensed a demand for Sudzuka sausage, Vegeta spices, Bananko candy and chicken pate. [more]
The Road of Death
Retracing the March of Death
In 1995, Dzevad Malkic was among the Bosnian Muslims who made the “March of Death” in the Bosnian war. Now a resident of St. Louis, he is walking the trail again, to “show the world . . . that they can’t drive us away.” [more]
Back to Bosnia
Balkans struggle to overcome past
Commemorating Srebrenica massacre, among other recent efforts, speaks volumes. [more]
Tracing the dead with DNA
Survivors arrive almost every day at a rundown Communist-era sports hall to have their DNA logged into a database maintained by the International Commission on Missing Persons. They hope that one day a match will be found among the thousands of recovered bones of those who were murdered, their bodies tossed into mass graves. [more]
A home of happiness, horror
For the Salihovic family of St. Louis County, returning to Srebrenica, the site if massacre 10 years ago, brings moments of joy and sadness. “It’s hard to come back,” Aziz Salihovic says. [more]
Bosnians here head home to remember Srebrenica
War and genocide fueled immigration to the St. Louis area. [more]
Survivor stories
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