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The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, photographed from a nearby building, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. The bright yellow Holiday Hotel in downtown Sarajevo, a famous symbol of survival of the Bosnian capital, has seen good and bad times in its turbulent history, but now the landmark's survival is in more danger than ever, with the coronavirus pandemic leaving it with only a few occasional guests. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, photographed from a nearby building, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. The bright yellow Holiday Hotel in downtown Sarajevo, a famous symbol of survival of the Bosnian capital, has seen good and bad times in its turbulent history, but now the landmark's survival is in more danger than ever, with the coronavirus pandemic leaving it with only a few occasional guests. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

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The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, is seen through a fence in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. The bright yellow Holiday Hotel in downtown Sarajevo, a famous symbol of survival of the Bosnian capital, has seen good and bad times in its turbulent history, but now the landmark's survival is in more danger than ever, with the coronavirus pandemic leaving it with only a few occasional guests. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, is seen through a fence in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. The bright yellow Holiday Hotel in downtown Sarajevo, a famous symbol of survival of the Bosnian capital, has seen good and bad times in its turbulent history, but now the landmark's survival is in more danger than ever, with the coronavirus pandemic leaving it with only a few occasional guests. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

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Staff, wearing masks against the COVID-19 infection, sit at the reception desk of the Holiday Hotel, in Sarajevo, Wednesday, July 29, 2020, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Staff, wearing masks against the COVID-19 infection, sit at the reception desk of the Holiday Hotel, in Sarajevo, Wednesday, July 29, 2020, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

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FILE - In this Sunday May 14, 1995 file photo, a French UN peacekeeper stands by his anti-sniper position backdropped by the Holiday Inn hotel on Sarajevo's Sniper Alley. The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

FILE - In this Sunday May 14, 1995 file photo, a French UN peacekeeper stands by his anti-sniper position backdropped by the Holiday Inn hotel on Sarajevo's Sniper Alley. The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

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The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, is reflected in the windows of a nearby building in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. The bright yellow Holiday Hotel in downtown Sarajevo, a famous symbol of survival of the Bosnian capital, has seen good and bad times in its turbulent history, but now the landmark's survival is in more danger than ever, with the coronavirus pandemic leaving it with only a few occasional guests. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, is reflected in the windows of a nearby building in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. The bright yellow Holiday Hotel in downtown Sarajevo, a famous symbol of survival of the Bosnian capital, has seen good and bad times in its turbulent history, but now the landmark's survival is in more danger than ever, with the coronavirus pandemic leaving it with only a few occasional guests. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

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A man walks outside the Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

A man walks outside the Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

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FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 3, 1992 file photo, staff members cover the shattered windows after shelling with plastic sheets at the Holiday Inn hotel on Sarajevo's Sniper Alley. The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 3, 1992 file photo, staff members cover the shattered windows after shelling with plastic sheets at the Holiday Inn hotel on Sarajevo's Sniper Alley. The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

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A man walks in the lobby of the Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

A man walks in the lobby of the Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

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Staff, wearing face masks against the COVID-19 infection, sit at the reception desk of the Holiday Hotel in Sarajevo,  Wednesday, July 29, 2020, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Staff, wearing face masks against the COVID-19 infection, sit at the reception desk of the Holiday Hotel in Sarajevo, Wednesday, July 29, 2020, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

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Cars drive by The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Cars drive by The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

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A woman rides a bicycle passing the Holiday Hotel, which opened in 1984 as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, photographed from a nearby building, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

A woman rides a bicycle passing the Holiday Hotel, which opened in 1984 as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, photographed from a nearby building, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

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FILE - In this Sunday, March 27, 1994, file photo, a Ukrainian U.N. soldier holds a weapon while protecting a tram diving through the so called Snipers Alley, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, backdropped by the Holiday Inn hotel. The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's. (AP Photo/Enric Marti, File)

FILE - In this Sunday, March 27, 1994, file photo, a Ukrainian U.N. soldier holds a weapon while protecting a tram diving through the so called Snipers Alley, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, backdropped by the Holiday Inn hotel. The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's. (AP Photo/Enric Marti, File)

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 15, 1994 file photo, three wounded Bosnian war veterans, walking with the aid of artificial limbs and pushing a legless comrade in a wheelchair, venture down one of Sarajevo's deadliest roads, called Sniper Alley, walking by the Holiday Inn hotel in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's. (AP Photo/Rikard Larma, File)

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 15, 1994 file photo, three wounded Bosnian war veterans, walking with the aid of artificial limbs and pushing a legless comrade in a wheelchair, venture down one of Sarajevo's deadliest roads, called Sniper Alley, walking by the Holiday Inn hotel in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's. (AP Photo/Rikard Larma, File)

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Manger Zahid Bukva walks on the corridors of The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. The bright yellow Holiday Hotel in downtown Sarajevo, a famous symbol of survival of the Bosnian capital, has seen good and bad times in its turbulent history, but now the landmark's survival is in more danger than ever, with the coronavirus pandemic leaving it with only a few occasional guests. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Manger Zahid Bukva walks on the corridors of The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. The bright yellow Holiday Hotel in downtown Sarajevo, a famous symbol of survival of the Bosnian capital, has seen good and bad times in its turbulent history, but now the landmark's survival is in more danger than ever, with the coronavirus pandemic leaving it with only a few occasional guests. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

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Staff members work at the bar of the Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Staff members work at the bar of the Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

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A window in one of the rooms of The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, offers a view of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

A window in one of the rooms of The Holiday Hotel, which opened as Holiday Inn, a luxurious accommodation for world's royalty, film stars and other dignitaries who came to watch the 1984 Winter Olympics, and less than a decade later, became ground zero of the bloody siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's, offers a view of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

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