(22 Nov 1995) Eng/Serbo-Croat/Nat
People in Sarajevo have welcomed the Bosnia peace agreement but they are still cautious about the future.
After nearly four years of war they say they will find it difficult to forgive and forget.
Headlines in Sarajevo's newspapers have given a big welcome to the Ohio peace agreement.
As they came off the press the headlines screamed 'the big peace deal'.
There have been plenty of ceasefires and peace agreements in Bosnia over the past three and a half years.
Even so, the people of Sarajevo think that Wednesday could mark the beginning of the end of war.
In the market place - scene of one of the Bosnian capital's bloodiest massacres when a mortar shell killed dozens of people - things seem to be back to normal.
But no-one is certain that the peace will last - or that there will be reconciliation between the warring sides.
SOUNDBITE: (In English)
"Every people in Bosnia need peace I think but now I don't know."
SUPER CAPTION: VoxPop
SOUNDBITE: (In Serbo-Croat)
"They were torturing us for three years and now we're supposed to be friends with them, I can't do it."
SUPER CAPTION: VoxPop
It was a mortar bomb which landed in this street - killing several Sarajevans - that pushed NATO into a bombing campaign against the Bosnian Serbs.
People still come to mourn its victims of the mortar - such memories will be hard to forget.
SOUNDBITE: (In Serbo-Croat)
"I don't think the Serbs are going to take this peace, but I would like peace, that would be the happiest moment of my life,"
SUPER CAPTION: VoxPop
At the U-N headquarters, the guards were skeptical about whether the latest moves could really end the war in Bosnia.
SOUNDBITE: (In English)
"I hope this time it works. The people in Sarajevo and Bosnia deserve it. It's been a very bloody and dirty war. Let's hope that the U-N has finally got some results. I hope it, but I don't believe it yet."
SUPER CAPTION: U-N soldier
Under the peace agreement European troops in Sarajevo will be swapping their United Nations blue berets and white vehicles for NATO camouflage.
NATO will try to enforce the peace.
SOUNDBITE: (In English)
"I'm happy peace has finally come to Bosnia and I hope people now can begin to live a normal life."
SUPER CAPTION: U-N soldier
But at the memorials around Sarajevo people will continue to mourn people for whom the agreement came to late.
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