Understanding Bosnia

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             In 1054AD Rome divided its east and west regions right through what is present day Bosnia. The east became the Orthodox Church and the west Catholic. In the 14th century the Ottoman Turks came and many converted to Islam.             Yugoslavia was made up of six provinces: Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Macedonians, Montenegrins and the sixth, Bosnia,  was intermingled with three groups Serbs (Orthodox), Croats (Catholic) and Bosniacs (Slavs that had converted to Islam). After the communist dictator Tito died, the provinces started moving toward independence. In Bosnia this led to civil war as both the Serbs and Croats wanted control.             Initially, in the town of Mostar where we were, the Croats and Bosniacs united against the aggression of the Serbs and won. However, the Croats then turned on the Bosniacs (Muslims). They created a camp of deplorable conditions and would bust into Muslim homes and drag them off to this concentration camp. In Bihar, mass graves were found full of Bosniacs bodies. There are some women with no men left in their family lines.            As a result of the war, cities that used to be mixed are now much more homogeneous. Sarajevo is now 90% Muslim and has allowed few non-Muslims to return to the city after the war. Unemployment is 50-70% depending on the area. Racial tensions have kept evangelization to a minimum. Their identity is tied to their religion, so to get saved is to deny what they fought a war over and even lost loved ones over. Pray for the nations.