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SARAJEVO, Nov 4 (AFP) - A Sarajevo court sentenced a former Bosnian Muslim soldier to 10 years in jail Tuesday for his role in a wartime massacre of Croat civilians, a prosecutor said. Enes Sakrak, 30, was accused of taking part in the September 1993 massacre of more than 30 Bosnian Croat civilians, mainly elderly people, in Grabovica village by the Bosnian government army. He was "sentenced to 10 years in prison... for committing war crimes against civilians" during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, Sarajevo county chief prosecutor Mustafa Bisic said in a statement. He is the first person to be sentenced...

NOVI SEHER, Bosnia-Herzegovina, AP It's the second day of school, and classrooms are filling up with giggling Muslim children. But the building reserved for Croatian kids is eerily quiet, its classrooms empty. Efforts to desegregate this primary school and others in ethnically divided Bosnia have so angered Croat parents that they are keeping their children at home. Like so many of Bosnia's problems, the standoff at the Novi Seher school 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Sarajevo is rooted in the 1992-95 war that pitted Muslims, Croats and Serbs against each other, killing 260,000 people and displacing more than half...

Source: The Serbian Questions in The Balkans, University of Belgrade, publisher - Faculty of Geography, Belgrade 1995. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the twentieth century, South-eastern Europe saw the rise and demise of the Yugoslav idea which resulted in the creation and destruction of the common Yugoslav state. The fate of the Serbian people, the most numerous people in the central part of this region, which gave the greatest contribution to the creation of the common state, but which also became the tragic hostage of its forcible break-up, is closely linked to the fate of this idea and this state. At the end...

Carla del Ponte, it is your duty to immediately indict and publicly call for the immediate arrest of Alija Izetbegovic for genocide, crimes against humanity, violations of the laws and customs of war and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions. Between November 18, 1990 and November 21, 1995 acting individually or in concert with Haris Silajdzic, Ejup Ganic and others, Alija Izetbegovic planned, instigated, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted the planning, preparation or execution of the destruction, in whole or in part, of the Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Croat national, ethnical, racial or religious groups, as such, in...

Personalities: Alija Izetbegovic The Islamic Declaration -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Western media presents him as a 'secular' President, but... THE CURRENT PRESIDENT OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA MR. ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC IS ISLAM FUNDAMENTALIST -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following are excerpts from the book "The Islamic Declaration" ("Islamska deklaracija"), written by Mr. Alija Izetbegovic, current President of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The book was reprinted by "BOSNA", Sarajevo, 1990, 127 pages. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "... Do we want the Muslim nations to cease moving in circles, to stop being dependent, backward and poverty-stricken; do we want them to once again with a sure step climb the road of dignity and enlightment and...