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In Bosnia, Entrenched Ethnic Divisions Are a Warning to the World

Sabir Golos at his fire station in Mostar, Bosnia, where there are two separate fire brigades — one made up mostly of Muslims, like him, and a second one staffed by Catholic Croats, Nov. 6, 2018. Bosnia’s divisions offer a dark lesson in how, once cleaved apart by fear and fighting, communities can stay splintered long after many people have forgotten what it was that pushed them apart. (Laura Boushnak/The New York Times)