In preparations of Sarajevo Business Forum 2011 an initiative has been launched from that institution to position Sarajevo as a Regional Center for University-education. The initiative implies annual enrolling of 20,000 students to Sarajevo universities, which would bring to the City and the universities about 500 million Convertible Marks each year and even more that that.

The human toll from the Kosovo conflict is tragic: according to Belgrade’s Humanitarian Law Center, the number of killed and missing persons from the Kosovo conflict stands at over 13,000. Of those, some 1,860 people remain missing, including over 1,000 Albanians, nearly 500 Serbs, and hundreds of members of other ethnicities. All with family members who anxiously await some news of their loved ones. Repatriation of missing family members continues to be a distant dream for too many people in former Yugoslavia. A proper and respectful burial remains a fundamental guiding principle for cultures throughout the world.

Over the course of the trial, that has lasted just over nine months, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina tried to prove that Zeljko Ivanovic, known as Arkan and former member of the Second Special Police Squad with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republika Srpska, MUP RS, committed genocide against the residents of Srebrenica in July 1995.

Florence Hartmann spoke up about the injustice towards Bosniak victims. Neither Jeffrey Nice nor Carla Del Ponte attempted this. International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia continues to operate and Mrs. Hartmann speaks of all the current injustice while institutions such as this one continue to exist, so that the mistakes can be fixed.

Paradoxically, this is precisely the time for NATO to forge a closer alliance with Bosnia, a process that began last Thursday in Tallinn, Estonia. A meeting of the alliance's foreign ministers agreed to give Bosnia and Herzegovina a Membership Action Plan (MAP) -- a welcome step toward maintain the country's tenuous hold on peace and stability.

In conclusion, as the Addendum highlights the reasons why this solution dwells unrecognized and in obscurity, it can be said, at this moment, for the daughters and sons of Bosnia (and Croatia) that “a great opportunity has found small people”. The imperial dynamics is preventing them to find the courage and recognize their own power and capabilities as We the People, and the tool – the proposed solution – which they could and should use to execute it!

“In most cases the destruction took place at night, during police curfew, while the Republika Srpka Army, VRS, and police forces patrolled the streets. In some cases, such as the Ferhadija or Arnaudija mosques, huge amounts of explosives were used for their destruction. After that, leading municipal authorities engaged in destroying the ruins and removing the construction material,” Riedlmayer said.

The question is, when we have scored a victory at the highest battleground, why do we now demean our victory and those innocents who were slaughtered by, way of begging before a third-rate show? Where the main actors were silent when the World Court declared us winners and issued an Order to the world to be carried out?

The ITCY is very careful to avoid any possible complaint about possibly hurting his “rights”? But, in reality, we all know, his case is like pedestal on which the killed beast is exposed to show to the village that the danger has gone. But has it? Europe does not want to realize that the trial of Karadzic is to a degree a trial of itself. Europe has difficulty to even pronounce term GENOCIDE in Srebrenica; likewise it is not happy to repeat the term HOLOCAUST.

Today, Bosnia is again under threat. This time the threat is not from the brutality and immediacy of genocide. Rather, it is a more subtle menace: the prospect of a state weakened to the extent that it dissolves; leaves its people in separatist, monoethnic conclaves; loses all hope for democratic development; and validates ultranationalism.

According to the verdict issued against Krstic, Karadzic gave the order on 9 July, 1995 for the Drina Corps to occupy Srebrenica. The verdict says that two days later, Ratko Mladic, Krstic and other VRS officers were “walking the streets of Srebrenica in triumph”. The hunt for Mladic, charged with genocide and numerous other crimes, goes on as he remains at large.

What do we dream about in this blessed night of Leiletu-l-kadr? God, we dream of a world in which the Sun will warm us and the Moon will watch us, the stars will follow us, the mountains will love us, the seas will carry us, the winds will hug us, the rains brings us cheer, and the nights give us rest and the days waken us. We dream about the world in which there will be no fear from the mightiest earthquake of the Earth from the horrible weapon which man has invented in order to destroy himself. We dream about the world in which there will be no war, genocide, refugees, orphans and homeless.

Irrespective of the recommendations made by the management of the State Court and its Prosecution, in early July this year the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted a decision rejecting the proposal made by the Ministry of Justice of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which had requested the extension of mandates of international personnel.

The differentiation of Jews and other minorities in Europe eventually diversified and brought to us the period of “enlightenment” and claims that, with it, Europe has found solution for individual differences among people. But when observed from a Jewish perspective, the proposed emancipation actually only furthered the idea of Cuius regio, eius religio, where the individual is expected to shed his or her parochial identity and adopt some sort of generic standard of the behavior for citizens.

Avdo and I met when we were students, in 1987, in the Trade Union building in Sarajevo. We were both scholarship holders of Tito's fund and came from the same area, Podrinje. But, simply, worrying about school, college, we didn't stay together. We separated sometime in 1989, even though we had talked about living together.