In the city, people rushed to catch the metro, a motley assembly of cars of different colours and sizes. I learned that the metro cars were donated by several European and Islamic countries, each with their own particular make and design. Most of the pedestrians were women. International forces are stationed throughout the city, providing a rare link with the outside world. Here one can find a panoply of consumer goods and luxury items that are the envy of the people of Sarajevo.
Unemployment is rampant and inflation is high.
The Serbian area extends south to north along the borders of Monte Negro and Serbia to the east, and in the south it occupies the region adjacent to the northern Croatian border. The Serbs have destroyed all the homes in their area that belong to Muslims and Croatians. They have also destroyed more than a thousand mosques. The map, printed in Zagreb in 1996 on the occasion of the Pope's visit to Bosnia, shows the republics of Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. In a bookshop on one of the main streets, I learned that Bosnia had some 400 forms of print and audio-visual media.