Return Between Semblance and Reality 65 pages, pdf  Download Back

 Return Between Semblance and Reality

Publisher: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, BiH

Volume: 65 pages, pdf

Description:

One hundred and eighty thousand persons displaced within Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and 400,000 citizens of this country currently living in about forty countries of the world have not exercised their right of return yet. In the period from 1992 to 1995, approximately 2,3 million people were forced out of their homes. This statistics, presented at the 1st Congress of Refugees and Displaced Persons in BiH, held on 27 June 2007, that almost a million persons have returned to BiH since the Dayton Peace Agreement was signed. These are the figures produced by the Government. The people’s eagerness to return home is not in decrease, if we judge it by the number of requests for registration of potential beneficiaries of assistance submitted following an open call for application announced by the Ministry for Human rights and refugees. Thus, there are more than 40,000 families, i.e. about 135,000 individuals who want to return to their pre-war homes.