Another 800,000 lost their homes. Our special report is from Fred de Sam Lazaro. It was a crisp fall evening in Montenegro, as a bus-load of mostly Serb refugees began an overnight journey to Sarajevo, capital of neighboring Bosnia.
Refugees trying to reclaim their old homes face an often painful game of musical chairs.
Their homes, if they're still habitable, are often occupied by people driven from their own homes elsewhere in this divided country. All told, as many as 800,000 people were displaced during the war. The next day, Ljiljana Avramovic tried to visit her old apartment, but found no one home. Still, the former school teacher, whose spent seven years in refugee shelters, will press on with her claim with city authorities, even though Avramovic, a Serb, says the neighborhood she fled has changed from multicultural to mostly Muslim. I am doing it especially for my children, they want it.