Obstacles to Reconciliation

Keywords: South Easter Europe, English, conflict, media content, religion

A priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Bosnian town of Prijedor, Ranko Maletic, urges his congregation every Sunday sermon to respect the rights of all their neighbors and help returnees to the Prijedor region make a peaceful and dignified life for themselves.

Every Friday, Imam Merzuk Efendi Hadzirasidovic, sends the same message to Muslims gathered in the mosque. Despite this, however, attacks against religious buildings, not only in the Prijedor region, but throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, are ever more frequent……
(by Ljiljana Kovacevic – BETA – MDI, 2003)

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