Alija izetbegovic biography
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Inescapable Questions : Autobiography of Alija Izetbegovic (Former President of Bosnia-Herzegovina)
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Author: Former President of Bosnia-Herzegovina
Publisher: Islamic Foundation (UK)
Pages: 550 Binding: Paperback
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Alija Izetbegovic' may best be known as the President who single-mindedly struggled for a just end to the conflict which revaged his country in the 1990s. In the face of the indifference of Europe, which had lapsed on its fifty year old promise of 'never again' as concentration camps once more sprang up in its midst, he tirelessly compaigned for justice at home and abroad. To some he is difficult and uncompromising; to others he is a man who sought to live his life by the highest of principles. As a prisoner of conscience in the 1980s h
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Alija Izetbegović (8 August 1925 – 19 October 2003) was a Bosnian politician, activist, lawyer, author, and philosopher who in 1992 became the first President of the newly-independent Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was also the author of several books, most notably Islam Between East and West and the Islamic Declaration.
Izetbegovic was born on 8 August 1925 in Bosanki Samac in the Northern part of Bosnia to an accountant father in a distinguished family. Izetbegovic moved to Sarajevo the following year and received his education from Sarajevo Law School. At the age of fifteen, in 1940, he co-founded an organization, Mladi Muslimani (Young Muslims) which helped the refugees during World War II. In 1946, after the war, he was arrested for his activities during the course of war and was sentenced to three years of imprisonment. After being free, he obtained a law degree from Sarajevo University and remained in active politics. In 1970’s, Izetbegovic published a manifesto titl
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Izetbegovic: Hero of Sarajevo
He was a devout Muslim who fought for the emancipation of his people within a multi-ethnic state, but never realised his dream of a reunified Bosnia.
Izetbegovic long advocated a state in which ethnic Muslims, Croats and Serbs would fully enjoy their national and religious rights, denied in former communist Yugoslavia.
But sju years after the 1992-1995 war, his country remains divided along ethnic lines and is struggling to recover.
Worldwide sympathy
He was a key figure during the war in Bosnia when about 200,000 people died and more than two million were forced out of their homes.
He won worldwide sympathy by running the government from sandbagged buildings during the three-and-a-half-year-long siege of Sarajevo by Bosnian Serbs, beneath constant threat from their artillery and sniper attacks.
The short, blue-eyed Muslim walked to his office through the bombardment, believing, according to those who knew him, that death would komma when A