There is more Islamophobia in Bosnia and Herzegovina than there is in the rest of Europe, the head of a Muslim organization in the country said on Tuesday. “Unfortunately, Islamophobia exists in our society. We may suffer it from Bosnians, Croats, or Serbs. Islamophobia, we can say, is more common in Bosnia and Herzegovina than in (other) European countries,” Husein Kavazovic Kavazovic, the president of the Islamic Union group, told Anadolu Agency in an interview. Explaining that Islamophobia is “a kind of racism,” Kavazovic said this form of discrimination is still rife in the Balkan country despite Muslims and non-Muslims living together within its borders. “Even though we see each other often, unfortunately, this is the case,” he lamented, adding that most people do not expect to encounter Islamophobia in Bosnia and Herzegovina or its capital, Sarajevo. Kavazovic argued that Islam is not fully understood in Bosnia and Herzegovina, nor, for example, the meaning of the headscarf, also known as a hijab, that many Muslim women wear. Noting that some Muslim women are forced out of their jobs or not given work because they wear the hijab, he said this was a “ridiculous” practice by employers. No force can bring repeat of events in 1990s Amid rising concerns in the country of ethnic secessionism, Kavazovic said many feared that the simmering tensions would devolve into a new war. “As a small country, we went through a very painful war,” said the Muslim leader, adding, however: “When I look at the current situation, there’s no force that can repeat what happened in the 1990s in Bosnia and Herzegovina.” “People who talk about stories of a possible war only make life difficult. That’s why our young people and children go live abroad. But, it’s still good to be careful,” said Kavazovic. The Bosnian War began on March 1, 1992 and lasted until Dec. 14, 1995. More than 100,000 people lost their lives in the war, while around 2 million were uprooted from their homes. The country suffered greatly during its war of independence, which included a siege of Sarajevo and the genocide of Srebrenica, Europe’s worst war-time atrocity since 1945. The siege of the capital Sarajevo began on April 5, 1992. It took 1,425 days in total and a total of 11,541 people in Sarajevo, 1,601 of whom were children, were killed. More than 50,000 civilians were injured by about 500,000 shells dropped on the city. An average of 329 mortar shells were fired into the city every day. In the town of Srebrenica, about 80 kilometers east of the capital, more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed when Bosnian Serb forces attacked in July 1995, despite the presence of Dutch peacekeeping troops.
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– Thousands of people took to the streets in Yemen’s Northwestern city of Sa’ada and elsewhere on Friday to condemn the Saudi-led coalition’s military aggression and brutal siege on the Arab country.
Marking the ‘National Day of Cry in the Face of Aggressors’, demonstrators took part in a massive rally in Sa’ada to reaffirm their resolve to continue their spirited resistance until the logical end, presstv reported.
The participants waved Yemen’s national flag and chanted vociferous slogans such as “Death to America”, “Death to House of Saud”, and “Death to Israel” while expressing rage and indignation over the Saudi-led coalition’s continued atrocities and crimes in Yemen.
“The slogan ‘Cry in the Face of Aggressors’ shattered the lengthy silence on domestic issues and exposed the conspiracies of enemies. It had an instrumental role in preserving the religious identity of Yemen,” the protesters said in a joint communiqué.
“The Yemeni nation must carry out its duties and mobilize forces en masse against enemies. We urge freedom-loving people in the Saudi-occupied Yemeni territories to stand up against coalition forces and their mercenaries, and expel them from their local communities,” they added.
The statement warned the foreign military coalition against persisting with its aggression, and emphasized that Yemen will “remain a free and independent country”.
“We warn of the danger of normalization with the Zionist enemy, and reiterate our full preparedness to side with the axis of resistance in the fight against the oppression of the Palestinian nation,” it further noted.
Elsewhere in the capital city of Sana’a, people carried Yemeni flags as well as pictures of former and current Ansarullah leaders, Hussein Badreddin Al-Houthi and Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi.
They chanted slogans against Saudi crimes in the country, and reaffirmed resolve to continue their determined resistance.
The development came as the United Nations announced that the truce between the warring Yemeni sides had been extended for two more months.
The initial two-month truce started at the beginning of the holy fasting month of Ramadan on April 2 and was set to expire on Thursday.
“I would like to announce that the parties to the conflict have agreed to the United Nations’ proposal to renew the current truce in Yemen for two additional months,” UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg said.
Grundberg added that the truce extension would come into effect “when the current truce period expires, today June 2, 2022, at 19:00 Yemen time (1600 GMT)”.
“The announcement of the truce extension today shows a serious commitment from all parties to end the senseless suffering of millions of Yemenis,” the Norwegian Refugee Council’s (NRC) Yemen Country Director, Erin Hutchinson, said in a statement after the announcement.
“The last two months have shown that peaceful solutions to the conflict are a real option,” he added.
Saudi Arabia launched the devastating war on Yemen in March 2015 in collaboration with its Arab allies and with arms and logistics support from the US and other Western states.
The objective was to reinstall the Riyadh-friendly regime of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and crush the Ansarullah resistance movement, which has been running state affairs in the absence of a functional government in Yemen.
While the Saudi-led coalition has failed to meet any of its objectives, the war has killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis and spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
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