00:00Žedko is Muslim. Marko is an Orthodox Christian.
00:03And they stayed friends even in the darkest of times, which makes their village unique.
00:11You see, during the war in Bosnia, neighbors turned against each other along ethnic lines.
00:16A hundred thousand people were killed, but not in their village.
00:20We were ashamed of each other to say a different word.
00:24It's like we were family connected.
00:29Welcome to Balevinje in Republika Srpska, the so-called village of peace.
00:34The only one in the Serb majority entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina where no shots were firing.
00:40This mosque is the only one that was left unscathed during the war.
00:44But why? That's because Christian Serbs like Marko protected their Muslim neighbors,
00:49against all odds.
00:59Researchers have studied the village to understand why peace survived here.
01:03Although Serbs and Muslims share the same school and doctors, they live two kilometers apart.
01:09And the village has no running water.
01:11For generations, neighbors shared the same resource depending on each other to survive,
01:16which created a unique bond.
01:19It's normal that we, as a person,
01:23agree with each other, agree with each other,
01:25and understand each other.
01:27It's normal.
01:28It's normal.
01:30It's normal.
01:31It's normal.
01:33It's normal.
01:34It's normal.
01:35It's normal.
01:36It is מướgu,
01:41what scale does is distinctly sad.
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