Bosnia clerics ‘stir up’ tension

The election campaigns for local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which will take place on 2 October 2004, were conducted mainly in a democratic atmosphere characterized by fairness and absence of any major incidents that might have put in question the validity of the elections. However, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina said that the salient feature of the campaign was the large degree of involvement of the leaders of religious communities, who, for the most part, implicitly navigated the constituencies to vote for the three nationalistic parties - SDS, SDA and HDZ.

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http://www.bh-hchr.org/statements.htm http://www.bh-hchr.org/statements.htm

Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina http://www.bh-hchr.org/index2.htm

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