How did the different ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina interacted before the outbreak of this conflict?
A. Well, before the conflict broke out the various ethnic groups lived together. Of course, in history there have been moments of antagonism and struggle and particularly during the Second World War, but during the 45 years that the Tito regime lasted, the various groups lived together. They lived together particularly in the cities because, generally speaking, each village was homogenous. Each hamlet, each small village, was homogenous and was usually inhabited by people of one and the same group. But cities, even smaller cities, were mixed and people would encounter one another there and people would develop good relations. The older generation, having good relations did not mean that people forgot which community their neighbors belonged to, but these communities got along fine. They helped one another out, and they would go to the events scheduled by or hosted by one side or the other. There were a lot of mixed marriages, for instance. There are not any statistics as to the percent
