(7 Dec 1995) Serbo-Croat/Nat
Hundreds of Bosnian Moslem refugees met on Thursday to work out how they will return to their former homes in the Serb-held suburbs of Sarajevo.
They welcomed last month's American-brokered peace agreement - under which the Serbs have to hand back areas of the city they control to the Bosnian government.
But some Muslims hope to live side by side with their Serb neighbours once again.
Under the terms of the Bosnia peace agreement the suburbs of Sarajevo now controlled by the Bosnian Serbs will be given back to the Bosnian Government.
At the beginning of the war in Bosnia in 1992 Serb forces kicked these refugees out of those suburbs and now the refugees want to go home.
But the Serbs who live on the other side of the border have been protesting against the agreement, fearing that they in turn will have to leave their homes.
Thursday's meeting was held to reassure them.
Speakers emphasised that they want the Serbs to remain in their homes and the two communities to live alongside each other - as they did before the war.
SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat)
"I think that we can live together. All those civilians who don't have blood on their hands can stay in these suburbs and the Bosnian people will live with them."
SUPER CAPTION: Safet Hodzic, Bosnian Refugee
SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat)
"If we choose to work together and if we want to make economic progress I think we will come to live together again and we will have democracy."
SUPER CAPTION: Mustafa Idrizovic, Bosnian Refugee
SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat)
"Sarajevo was always a town for everyone. We lived together and it will stay like this. Children from mixed Moslem and Serb marriages will keep it like that. Even during the war, we still have mixed marriages in Sarajevo."
SUPER CAPTION: Senka Fetakovic, Bosnian Refugee
The problem is - over the past three years - thousands of Bosnian Serbs have moved into the houses where the Muslims used to live.
Now both sides have to work out where everyone is going to go.
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