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As a result of the last war in the Balkans Yugoslavs lost their fatherland - their country ceased to exist. Its remnant - the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (the so-called New Yugoslavia, consisting of Serbia and Montenegro) - is currently in the state of collapse. There are no Yugoslavs in the Balkans. War and politicians' manipulations turned them into Serbian, Croatian, Muslim, Macedonian or Albanian nationalists. Those who were unable to subordinate to new rules, emigrated, died or were accused of treason.... In Sarajevo besieged by Bosnian Serbs I met the last true Yugoslavs; they lowered their voices when nostalgically mentioning Yugoslavia, as if they were referring to a deceased person who was quite deer to them. Possibly, in the prospect of new history, only Emir Kusturica's films will serve as proof that Yugoslavia had really existed. The conflict in the Balkans cost life of over 200 000 people. A few thousand women have been brutally raped, their husbands and sons beaten and tortured. Half a century after World War II in Europe - in the region of former Yugoslavia - concentration camps have been set up again. Because of ethnic cleansing over 2 million people lost their homes and became refugees.. The last war in Kosovo and Yugoslavia created about 800 000 Albanian refugees and over 160 000 Serbian refugees (from Kosovo). As a result of the military conflict, about 500-2000 (depending on the sources) civilians have been killed. The conflict in the Balkans: Calendar of events (pdf) Translation into English: Tomasz Lem
Jan Pieklo, The Balkan Syndrome - Nationalism And The Media journalist, Director of PAUCI Foundation Natasza Pejic, A commentary a journalist of the independent press agency BETA in Belgrade, Serbia. Jan Pieklo, Landscape after War (I): Belgrade Jan Pieklo, Landscape after War (II) - Zagreb Jan Pieklo, Landscape After War (III) - Sarajevo Jan Pieklo, Landscape After War (IV): Brczko Stefan Wilkanowicz, Sarajevo, Sunday Afternoon The taecher and journalist in "Tygodnik Powszechny" and "Znak" (editor-in-chief in the years 1978-1994). For many years a member of the Papal Council for Laity. At present, chairman of the Foundation of Christian Culture "Znak". Vice-president of the National Council of Lay Catholics, and vice-president of the International Council of the National Museum Oswiecim-Brzezinka (Auschwitz-Birkenau). Martin Bell, Journalist - a Witness of Hatred A British reporter, started his journalistic career in the news team of the BBC in 1965. Travelled as a reporter to 90 countries of the world, reported 11 wars: in Vietnam, Middle East (in 1967 and 1973), Angola, Rhodesia, Biafra, Nicaragua, El Salvador, the Persian Gulf, Croatia and Bosnia. In 1979-1989 was a BBC correspondent in Washington. In the parliamentary elections of 1997 became an independent Member of Parliament. Urs Altermatt, Sarajevo Is Not an Isolated Case Born in 1942 r. in Switzerland. Studied history, political science, and sociology in Bern, Freiburg (Switzerland) and Berlin. Since 1980 r. professor of modern history at the University of Freiburg (Switzerland); earlier, in the years 1973-1980, lecturer at the University of Bern. Visiting Professor of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow (1991) and the Economic Academy in Budapest (1992); Fellow at the Harvard University, USA (1976/77) and at the Collegium in Budapest (1994/95). As a historian of ideas and society, he has won an international reputation with his numerous publications. His prize-winning book Catholicism and the Modern World, translated into many West- and East-European languages, was published in 1995 by the ZNAK publishing house in Krakow, Poland.
Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Words and Deeds Publicist, Catholic activist, plitician. From 1957 to 1980 editor-in-chief of the monthly "Wiez". Activist of the Catholic Intelligentsia Club, member of the Parliament of the People's Republic of Poland in the "Znak" circle. An aide of the "Solidarity" union since August 1980. Negotiator of the agreements between "Solidarity" and the communist government in 1980. Interned during the martial law. Editor-in-chief of the "Tygodnik Solidarnosc" (Solidarity Weekly). Participant of the Round Table talks in 1988. Founder of the Democratic Union party (now Liberty Union) and its chairman until 1995. In 1989-1991 the prime minister of the first non-communist government in the Central-Eastern Europe. In 1992-1995 a special rapporteur of the United Nations Committee of Human Rights in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Adnan Silajdzic, Islam, Bosnia And The Dilemmas Of The Present Day He comes from a deeply religious Bosnian Muslim family, which also produced the former premier of Bosnia. He grew up in Sarajevo and is a graduate of the Medresa Gazi-Husrevbega, the oldest school of Islamic theology in Europe and also the oldest educational institution in the Balkans, marking the 460th anniversary of its founding this year. He is also a graduate of the Faculty of Islamic Studies. During his theological studies, he concentrated primarily on the history of religion, and especially on the history of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He did postgraduate work at the Catholic Faculty in Zagreb. He spent the 1991 academic year in Paris, carrying out further specialized studies at the Catholic Institute there. He is now a lecturer in the history of religion at the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Sarajevo.
John Paul II, Address to the Representatives of Authorities of Bosnia-Hercegovina Stefan Wilkanowicz, A School For Europe
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