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The President of Bosnia, Alija Izetbegovic, has said Bosnia's struggle will not be over until the whole country is "free".

Speaking in the eastern Bosnian town of Gorazde, he said that Bosnia's children would one day "liberate" the country.

President Alija Izetbegovic was visiting Gorazde -- the former U-N safe-haven in eastern Bosnia.

The city is now surrounded by the so-called Republika Srpska, the Bosnian Serb autonomous region in Bosnia.

Thousands of the towns' residents turned out to hear his address -- that contained a newly strident tone and an ominous warning that the battle was not over.

SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat)
Our enemy has broken its teeth on this town and you can't see them anymore. Unfortunately the iron hand of the world stopped our progress, our military successes because the world did not want us to win. We were about to win in the autumn of last year but we were stopped. But we say now, the battle for Bosnia and Herzegovina
will not stop until the whole of Bosnia is liberated. The battle might last for years. I greet all the children because I believe that they will carry out that victory. They will liberate the whole of Bosnia.
SUPER CAPTION: Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnian President

Izetbegovic vowed that Bosnians would recapture land from which they had been driven, saying everyone would have a rifle.

SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat)
General Delic said that the army has temporarily finished its job, that the guns are hung up for the moment. I would like to say that none of our men stay without a gun any more.
SUPER CAPTION: Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnian President

He was accompanied on his trip by the chief of staff of the Bosnian army, General Rasim Delic, and Bosnia's Prime Minister, Hasan Muratovic.


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