The mood music around the 30th anniversary of the peace agreement that ended the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina is at best sombre, much like the atmosphere of the past three decades.
Since the end of a war that killed some 100,000 people, Bosnia has become synonymous with political crisis, prone to prolonged legislative paralysis blamed on its highly decentralised system of ethnic power-sharing in which only a corrupt and self-serving political elite appears to benefit.
Some 450,000 frustrated Bosnians have voted with their feet since 2013, leaving Bosnia in search of stability and prosperity elsewhere, mainly in the European Union.
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