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Bosnia  By David Rust, CNN April 12, 2012 -- Updated 1259 GMT
(2059 HKT) A swathe of red snakes through Sarajevo. Each of the
11,541 chairs symbolizes a person killed during the Siege of
Sarajevo.   • CNN photojournalist David Rust returned to Bosnia
for the first time since the war   • He sees big changes in
Sarajevo and friends, 20 years on, look older but healthier   •
McDonald's on sniper alley sounds incongruous but provides jobs
in new Sarajevo  (CNN) -- Although the war in Bosnia began on
April 6,1992, my involvement in the conflict didn't start until
July 23, when CNN photojournalist Margaret Moth was shot by a
sniper and nearly killed.  I was part of a CNN team sent in to
replace my wounded colleague and spent more than two years
covering the story. Last week, the 20th anniversary of the
conflict, I returned to Sarajevo for a reunion of journalists
who covered the war.  While Margaret was being medivaced to a
hospital in London, I arrive