Bosnia and Herzegovnia:
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U.S.
Department of State Human Rights Report 1998
The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, including private
and public worship, and, in general, individuals enjoyed this right
in their religious majority areas. However, the efforts of individuals
to worship in areas in which they are an ethnic/religious minority
were restricted, sometimes by societal violence. Some incidents resulted
in damage to religious edifices and cemeteries (see Section 5).
In July local government authorities and Bosnian Serb protesters in
Banja Luka prevented the burial of the mufti of Banja Luka in a Muslim
cemetery in that city. Demonstrators broke into an Islamic community
building and harassed mourners. The body of the mufti subsequently
was interred in Sarajevo. In November the Human Rights Chamber (see
Section 4) held a public hearing in Banja Luka to hear the Islamic
community's case against RS authorities for impairing its ability
to reconstruct mosques and other community-owned buildings destroyed
during the war in the Banja Luka area.
Source: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
for 1998, U.S. Department of State.
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