SARAJEVO, Feb 3 (Hina) - Bosnia's Muslim intellectuals who were displaced from their homes in the country's Serb entity and elsewhere in the country during the 1990s war object to a visit by the pope to Banja Luka this summer, the
Catholic Information Agency from Zagreb said on Monday.
SARAJEVO, Feb 3 (Hina) - Bosnia's Muslim intellectuals who were
displaced from their homes in the country's Serb entity and
elsewhere in the country during the 1990s war object to a visit by
the pope to Banja Luka this summer, the Catholic Information Agency
from Zagreb said on Monday. #L#
The intellectuals have stated they object to John Paul II visiting
"the capital of the criminal Republic of Srpska" as long as "war
criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic freely walk in that
entity".
The Bosnian Muslim intellectuals maintain that "the pope's visit to
the Republic of Srpska and its capital would mean giving legitimacy
to a policy that for years has been protecting the symbols of
genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- the war criminals Karadzic
and Mladic".
A statement signed by about 20 of them also calls on Bosnia's
Muslims (Bosniaks) to initiate petitioning against the Holy
Father's visit "because a visit by the supreme moral Catholic
authority to a genocidal creation would constitute the ultimate
insult to the Bosniak people".
(hina) ha sb