Sejad Mekic, a Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Muslim College (London) and Cambridge Muslim College, is the author of the forthcoming book, A European Mufti in Communist Yugoslavia.
The Bosnian war has left an indelible mark on Bosnia-Herzegovina. The atrocities and brutal ethnic cleansing, committed between April 1992 and December 1995, shattered assumptions of a secure and peaceful Europe that had endured since World War Two.