Bosnian bishop says, 'Serbs may annihilate us.'(Bishop Franjo Komarica)(Interview)

National Catholic Reporter | May 19, 1995| | Copyright

Editor's note: Freelance journalist Paul Hockenos recently found his way into northern Bosnia, the area over which Bishop Franjo Komarica, currently under house arrest, presides. Hockenos visited Komarica and interviewed him on May 5, just days before the most recent Serb threats against the bishop.

Northern Bosnia is an area that has been under the control of the Bosnian Serbs since war broke out in 1992. During those three years, the region's non-Serb populations, predominantly Muslim and Catholic Croat, have been massacred in "ethnic cleansing" campaigns. Today not a ...

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