The opportunities that I and the people with whom I had the honor to work had to try to end the genocide in Bosnia and make a new beginning, was one of the most important things that ever happened to me, not just as President, but in my life.
“The purpose of burning the houses was to expel the population and clear them out, considering they represented a threat to Serbs after the attacks of [Bosnian Army commander] Naser Oric and his units,” said the witness.
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I am sure that you are aware that these two exclusively Muslim documents on Universal Human Rights were not well received by human activists. Taking into the account that some of these activists have prejudices against Islam and Muslims in general, I think that it was not necessary for the Muslim world to issue its own Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In this sense, the Prophet pbuh showed respect and special care to the elderly people and those of high status. For instance, when Al Ashajj, who was the chief of his people, came to the Messenger of Allah pbuh, his noble companions, may Allah be pleased with them, gave space for him and the Prophet pbuh welcomed him and made him sit close to him.
Elezovic told Al Jazeera his story about surviving the Gabela detention centre, where about 1,500 men were housed in three large storage sheds by August 1993, according to testimony from former prisoners and accounts that Bosnian Croat authorities provided to Human Rights Watch.
The former, now honorary, Grand Mufti, Dr. Mustafa Ceric, (who is also an international president of Religions for Peace) visited Auschwitz for the first time in February 2011 as part of an interreligious pilgrimage, accompanied by Prof. Semso Ismanovic. Deeply moved by what he saw, Dr. Ceric then declared, “If we had prevented the Holocaust in Auschwitz, we could have prevented the Srebrenica massacre.”