On Thursday evening a ceremony was held at the Jewish municipality in Sarajevo in which medals were handed as recognitions awarded by the Museum of the Holocaust from Israel “Yad Vashem” which is awarded since the foundation of the Jewish state and given to those who had courage to save lives of persecuted Jews in the WWII.
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A new mass grave believed to contain dozens of genocide victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre has been found in eastern Bosnia, an official said today. The new grave is the 11th to be discovered in the eastern Bosnian village of Kamenica, near the town of Zvornik, said Murat Hurtic of the Bosnian Missing Persons Commission.
BiH Presidency Chair Haris Silajdzic said that the tensions in BiH are not being raised due his speeches at the UN General Assembly and the CE Parliamentary Assembly but the fact that mass graves are still being excavated in our country, and that this is not history, as well as that Radovan Karadzic is being prosecuted while his project succeeds under the umbrella of Dayton in BiH.
Read more: Silajdzic: Tensions are not being raised due to my speeches, but due to the facts
An interview with Dr. Mustafa ef. Ceric, Reisu-l-ulema of the Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A three-day conference themed “Love towards God and neighbour in words and deeds - suppositions for Muslims and Christians”, was held at the Yale University in New Haven (Conn., USA). The conference was put together as a Christian response to a letter signed by 138 prominent individuals of Muslim faith titled “A common word between you and us”, and in reference to an address, by Pop
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Supported by the forces of the international community stationed in BiH, Muslims, Bosniaks, originally expelled from Trebinje and Eastern Herzegovina, gathered at the end of the winter in 2001, in Trebinje, in the organization of the Mufti of Mostar after many years of absence, to see their homes, pay homage at the burial sites of the deceased and to mark Kurban Bayram.
Bayrams feel lonely just like us, the Muslims of this area
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Mufti Grabus: I greet you and your readers. Thank you for your question. I have carried the duties of the Mufti of Ljubljana since June 1, 2006. As we know, the Islamic Community in Slovenia adopted its Statute in 1994. Ever since, the Islamic Community in Slovenia has had its organs such as Congress (Sabor), Meshihat and others.
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Bosniaks.Net: I had a special privilege of attending your performance on May 26, 2007, during which you brought the audience to feel that they were back in their homeland of Bosnia and Herzegovina. You performed before a full house, at the dinner organized by Congress of North American Bosniaks, which dinner was attended by some 800 Bosniaks including leading political and religious leaders who flew in from Bosnia for the occasion of the 12-th annual gathering of North American Bosniaks.
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