Bosnia is approaching the 10th anniversary of the outbreak of a 43-month-long conflict that was Europe's worst since World War Two.
Although at peace, Bosnia remains still ethnically divided.
By the time the US-brokered Dayton treaty ended the Bosnian war in late 1995, splitting the former Yugoslav republic into autonomous halves largely along ethnic lines, over 200,000 lives had been lost and more than two million people made homeless.
"Unfortunately there is not much that is positive to draw from this experience," Bosnia'a wartime foreign minister, Mr Haris Silajdzic, a Muslim, said this week.
"What we have now is anything but a multi-ethnic Bosnia. It is an ethnically divided state which is unnatural," he said.
The country plans no major events to commemorate the anniversary. Officials will lay flowers at sites where some ofthe first victims of the war were killed.