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— Bosnian soldier fighting at Stara Bila.
Thousands of red chairs are standing empty along Sarajevo’s main avenue on Friday as Bosnia and Herzegovina commemorates the 20th anniversary since the start of the country’s war. A classical orchestra will play a concert for the 11,541 empty seats, one for each civilian killed during a near-four-year siege of the city by Bosnian Serb forces, which became a symbol of the 1992-1995 conflict.
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