Sarajevo's iconic war-bombed city hall re-opens

Sarajevo's city hall - housing the national library - has been re-opened - 22 years after it was destroyed by shelling during the Bosnian War.

5 Words I didn't know:

iconic - emblemàtic
siege - setge
city hall - ajuntament
quarter - barri
manuscripts - manuscrits

Summary:

The iconic building was restored and it's reopened twenty two years after the Bosnian Serb siege. The city hall was full of old books and important manuscripts, which was all of them destroyed when the building began to burn.  The city hall was also the national library and it's in the old Turkish quarter.

Peronal opinion:
Since I can remember I'm against wars, but one of the stuff I hate is the destruction of old important documents and books. In the course of the history we've lost a lot of knowledge because of the wars. Maybe we all should learn to deal our problems with words, not with violence. We could be a much more developed society, If we hadn't destroyed the knowledge of smart people in the past, we might know things that we're ignoring just right now.
I believe it's time to stop this way of living and find another one.