Few events in the recent past have so shaken the conscience of the world as the carnage and blood bath that took place in Bosnia Herzegovina during the years 1991-1995. Here in this profile, the author brings out a swift recapitulation of the Balkan crisis together with an account of one of the most remarkable lives of the twentieth century - that of Alija Ali Izzetbegovic, the former president of the war torn republic, who …
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…persons of people like Ali Izzetbegovic can that remarkable expression of Ostrovsky best fit in: "Man's dearest possession is life and since it is given to live but once he should so live that he is not smeared with the shame of a cowardly and trivial past, so live that dying he can say, 'All my life and my strength were given for the first cause of the world - the liberation of mankind.'"