Only 100,000 had gone back to homes in areas where their ethnic group was a minority. Most are elderly and seen as no threat, but numbers increasingly include young people in cities. Enforcement of the new property laws, which allow people to reclaim their flats, has helped, as have the officials' efforts to arrange swaps. Admir, a Muslim journalist in Mostar, recently moved back with his wife and small children to his old flat in a tower block in the Croat side of the city. It had been occupied by a Croat family who fled from Muslims in central Bosnia, but in recent times went home.
Most people are all right.
They get manipulated by their leaders. I want them to be taught the history of this country, not just the Croat version. Worrying about syllabuses rather than survival is progress of a sort. A former Bosnian Serb army commander wanted in connection with the worst massacre of the Bosnian war was arrested yesterday in northern Bosnia. Dragan Obrenovic is to be sent to the Hague tribunal for trial.