-- And the Obansk wolf, which invaded Mostar and its surroundings in the spring of 1992, became fatal to the bridge there and with it to the old town, including the famous bazaar called Kujundiluk.
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For more than 100 years, the Stari Most was an integral part of Mostar in Herzegovina. For AS Jugoslvie, he pitted crowds of tourists. Everything changed after the struggle in the 1990s, when the fate of the Turkish architect Mimar Hajrudin’s building became a sad symbol of the Obansk wolf. The monument, which did not have much military significance, was washed away in the waves on November 9, 1993, around nine o’clock in the morning after that barracks. The bridge was restored in 2004.
Author: Profimedia.cz
The building that gave the city its name and whose arch reached up to 25 meters above the river level, served as a pit for a number of lifts that over the years raced through the Balkans. Even the German units, retreating at the end of the second half of the world, the city, although they undermined the Old Bridge, but in the end they left it standing.
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And the Obansk wolf, which invaded Mostar and its surroundings in the spring of 1992, became fatal to the bridge there and with it to the old town, including the famous bazaar called Kujundiluk.
Author: Profimedia.cz
At first, the Croats fought around Mostar, mainly in the western part of the river, together with the Muslims from the eastern part against the Serbian units. In spring 1993, however, some allies turned their weapons against themselves.
Author: Profimedia.cz
Even the center was not spared the fighting and anti-aircraft bombardment, but the Stari Most escaped the shelter at first. The pit remained the last connecting link between the two courses of the Neretva, the rest of which were cut off by the soldiers of the Yugoslav National Army.
Author: TK
In the end, however, Dlosteleck grants began to flow to Stari Most as well. To this day, there is still speculation about the reasons for the shelters, as the Croats may have been reminded of Turkish servitude, while the Muslims also transported weapons and water after them.
Author: TK
It is not even clear who gave the order to destroy the bridge, it is most likely the notorious commander of the Herzegovinian Croats, Slobodan Praljak. In 2013, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentenced him without jurisdiction to 20 years in prison for the crime, while also changing the name of the bridge. Praljak, who in November 2017 committed suicide in a dream during a trial, claimed in his defense that the destruction of the bridge was staged by a Muslim party, but he was unable to prove it in any way.
Author: Profimedia.cz
In addition, Croatia’s childhood lasted several days, during which the beautiful stone arch gradually turned into a ruin, before the last grant dealt it the last blow. One of the paradoxes of the Bosnian conflict is that, according to some sources, the one who destroyed the fatal steles was a Muslim in the Croatian army.
Author: TK
At the mole, after the destruction of the bridge, there were plans to restore it, but in reality the wolves had to wait and for a time until the death of the wolves; the dog Neretva led at least a temporary rope bridge.
Author: TK
The fighting between Muslims and Croats subsided in 1994, but work on the restoration of the bridge began years later. The original stone blocks that were fished from the bottom of the Neretva River in December 1997 by the soldiers of the international forces were used for the new regiment, except that the cannons were cut in the same quarry where the original material came from.
Author: TK
The Turkish company Erbu, specializing in bridges from Ottoman times, started the reconstruction itself in June 2001, and years later the last trunk of the bridge arch was laid.
Author: TK
The reconstruction cost about 15 million euros (about 450 million crowns at the time) and the ceremonial reopening of the bridge in January 2004 was attended by a number of politicians and celebrities from all over the world, including the successor of the British Prince Charles and the Secretary General of the UNESCO organization Koira Macuura.
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Hopes that the tension between Mostar’s Croats and Muslims would disappear with the restoration of the bridge, as if by waving a magic wand, did not come true.
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Although the city has slowly recovered from the worst in recent years and gradually attracted more and more tourists, not only in the center but traces of the struggle and the political scene are still visible today.
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Both communities are thus separated, with exceptions, by the Neretva River, which runs through Mostar from north to south.
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The old bridge became a sad symbol of the Obansk wolf in Yugoslavia
