” ““Today, it is clear” that, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, “the war goes on, but with different methods”: this was stated by the archbishop of Vrhbosna Sarajevo, card. Vinko Puljic, who is in Rome with the Bosnian bishops for the visit ad limina to the Vatican, which starts today. Yesterday afternoon, the bishop took the floor at the press conference promoted by the Italian Catholic Action movement and by the Bishops’ Conference of Bosnia-Herzegovina, with the name “Ten years after the Dayton Conference. Bosnia-Herzegovina: a failure or a multiethnic future?”. Under the Dayton agreement (which on November 21st 1995 put an end to a three and a half years’ war, editor’s note), continued card. Puljic, “an unfair and structurally-unsustainable regime has come into being”. During the meeting, the bishop announced his intention to ask the Pope “for the Holy See to urge the international community not to adopt the same measures for all of the religious groups of the country”. In a system that “favours Orthodox and Muslim people”, it’s urgent, he stated, “to create equality for everyone and respect for everyone’s rights”. According to mgr. Franjo Komarica, bishop of Banja Luka, “the current regime”, under which “the region’s three peoples, Bosnians, Serbians and Croatians are placed into two political groups, has in fact legitimised the law of violence, thus damaging the Croatians who are mostly Catholic. 67% of them were driven out of their land during the war, but just 13% of them managed to go back”. “A democratic and fair regime noticed mgr. Pero Sudar, auxiliary bishop of Sarajevo -, can only be built” by revising the Dayton agreement and establishing a “genuinely multiethnic and multi-religious State, overcoming the current splitting into different political groups”.
