Making wine helps to heal scars of war in Bosnia
Making wine helps to heal scars of war in Bosnia
Apr 12, 2011 6
(Reuters Life!) - Alija Lizde spent five months in military prison camps in 1993. His only crime was being a Bosnian Muslim, but that was enough for the Bosnian Croat military police.
Now Lizde heads a small wine-making cooperative in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina where he works with six Croats and a Serb to revive ancient regional wine traditions -- and help him forget the horrors of the 1992-95 war which tore apart Yugoslavia and devastated Bosnia.
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