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Denton Record-Chronicle
Sunday, June 7, 2015
Pope urges Bosnians to work for
peace
tacks of the war.
After another shell landed on
the market in 1995, NATO
launched airstrikes against Bos-
nian Serb positions that brought
the Serbs to the negotiating ta-
Christian troops and threatened
with death. Moved by the testi-
mony, Francis bowed down to
one of them and asked for his
blessing.
Speaking olf-the-culf, Fran-
cis told the gathering of priests
and nuns in Sarajevo’s cathedral
that they must never forget the
“cruelty” inflicted on their fellow
Catholics — not to seek ven-
geance, but to show the power of
forgiveness.
“In your blood, in your voca-
tion, there is the blood of these
three martyrs,” a visibly moved
Francis said. “Think of how
much they suffered... and live a
life that is worthy of the cross of
Jesus Christ.”
It was a reminder to today’s
Catholics of the strong faith of
their ancestors — and a bid to
encourage them to stay put to
keep Bosnia’s Catholic commu-
nity alive.
Sarajevo was once known as
“Europe’s Jerusalem” for the
peaceful coexistence of its Chris-
tians, Muslims and Jews. It be-
came synonymous with reli-
gious enmity duringthe 1992-95
conflict that left 100,000 dead
and displaced half the popula-
tion.
By Aida Cerkez
and Nicole Winfield
Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herze-
govina — Pope Francis heard
about the horrors of Bosnia’s
fratricidal war of the 1990s and
its slow process of healing Satur-
day as he visited Sarajevo to urge
Muslims, Orthodox and Catho-
lics to put the ‘barbarity” of the
past behind them and work to-
gether for a peaceful future.
Thousands of cheering Bos-
nians gave Francis a joyous wel-
come, lining his motorcade
route through the mostly Mus-
lim city of300,000.
Another 65,000 people,
most of them Catholics, packed
the same Sarajevo stadium
where St. John Paul II presided
over an emotional post-war
Mass of reconciliation in 1997.
Francis said he was coming
to Sarajevo for a daylong trip to
encourage the process of peace
and reconciliation and show his
support for Bosnia’s tiny Catho-
lic community.
With Croat passports in
hand, many Catholics have fled
high unemployment in Bosnia
to search for better opportuni-
ties in the European Union.
The most poignant moment
of the day came when two Cath-
olic priests and a nun told Fran-
cis of their experiences during
the war, of having been kid-
napped, tortured and starved by
Muslim or Serb Orthodox
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The area is still a market, but
a wall painted red has tags with
the names of the victims.
“War never again!” Francis
intoned in his homily in Saraje-
vo’s stadium, drawing applause
from the crowd. He called on
Bosnians to make peace every
not just preach it —
through their “actions, attitudes
and acts of kindness, of fraterni-
ty, of dialogue, of mercy”
“Mir vama!” [Peace be with
you!] Francis repeated again
and again as the day wore on.
“Make peace. Work for peace.
All together, so that this can be a
country of peace.”
Despite the outward show of
harmony, wounds still fester two
decades after the war ended.
Bosnia’s Christian Orthodox
Serbs want a breakaway state;
Muslim Bosniaks want a unified
country; and Roman Catholic
Croats want their own autono-
mous region. Catholics re-
present only about 15 percent of
the population — down from
more than 17 percent before the
war.
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Pope Francis waves to the crowd as he arrives to celebrate a Mass at the Kosevo stadium, in
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on Saturday.
cis set free in a sign of peace at
the end of their meeting.
And a Muslim-Christian Or-
thodox children’s choir from
Srebrenica — scene of Europe’s
worst massacre since World
War II — serenaded Francis
with a song about love at the end
of his busy day.
‘We all need peace and to re-
ceive the pope’s message,” said
Alma Mehmedic, a 55-year-old
Muslim who waited for a
glimpse of Francis outside the
presidential palace. “I came to-
day to give love and receive love.”
But reminders of the devas-
tation of war and lingering ten-
sions were close at hand: Before
hearing of the testimonies of the
priests and nuns, Francis’ mo-
torcade passed by the open mar-
ket where a mortar shell fired
from the surrounding hills on
Feb. 5,1994, killed 68 people in
one of the bloodiest single at-
dence but divided the once
mixed country along ethnic
lines.
Nearly every step of Francis’
day was designed to show off the
interfaith and interethnic har-
mony that had grown in the two
decades since: Muslim carpen-
ters crafted the wooden throne
Francis sat on during Mass. A
Catholic pigeon breeder provid-
ed the white pigeons that Bos-
nia’s three presidents and Fran-
Muslim Bosniaks, Catholic
Croats and Christian Orthodox
Serbs fought a three-way war
over the country’s independence
after Yugoslavia fell apart. A
U.S.-mediated peace agreement
confirmed Bosnia’s indepen-
Muslim Bosniaks account for
40 percent and Orthodox Chris-
tian Serbs 31 percent, according
to Vatican statistics.
Turkish official says TNT
used in Kurdish rally attack
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Following the explosions on
Friday, Erdogan said he tried
calling Selahattin Demirtas, the
leader of HDP to express condo-
lences and condemn the attack,
but that Demirtas had not taken
his calls.
On Saturday, Demirtas said
that Erdogan had not uttered “a
single word about that savage at-
tack” in a speech after the explo-
sions.
By Suzan Fraser
and Desmond Butler
Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish
police have determined that at
least one of the lethal explosions
at a Kurdish party rally this week
was from TNT, and that both ex-
plosions involved “cellphone
mechanisms,” a government
minister said Saturday. Two
people were killed.
The blasts came at a tense
time as Turkey holds parliamen-
tary elections today in which the
Kurdish votes will be crucial in
determining whether the ruling
party gets the supermajority it
seeks.
Most were not in serious con-
dition and were being treated
for cuts, blows and shrapnel
wounds. Eight people were in
serious condition and had been
operated on, Eker said.
Initial reports had said that
electrical equipment had ex-
ploded, but Prime Minister Ah-
met Davutoglu said in com-
ments published Saturday that
the two explosions were acts of
sabotage and provocation.
Davutoglu’s ruling AKP par-
ty wants a large majority that
would allow it to change Tur-
key’s constitution and transfer
the prime minister’s executive
powers to President Recep Tayy-
ip Erdogan in a new presidential
system. If the Kurdish party,
HDP, gets a minimum 10 per-
cent of the votes required to take
seats in parliament, it would ef-
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“He may have tried to reach
me, but whether he reached me
or not is not important,” Demir-
tas said.
The HDP campaign has
been the target of other attacks,
including bombings at two local
party headquarters which in-
jured six people last month. The
HDP has accused Erdogan of
making the party a target by
constantly speaking against it in
the campaign.
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