Ethnic cleansing and destruction in Stolac
Stolac is located in southern Herzegovina, approximately 40 km southeast of
Mostar. It is a quasi-mythical town. Nobel laureate Ivo Andric, author of “The
Bridge on the Drina,” once pointed out that “if God created the world anywhere,
then he created it in Stolac”. Its municipality was indeed one of the most significant
centers of Bosnian culture, and Bosnia and Herzegovina considered proposing
Stolac for the UNESCO list of mankind’s cultural heritage in the 1980s.
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