450,000 people remain displaced from their original homes and live in shacks and disused buildings.

225,000 woman are war widows as a result of gendercide and combat.

17,000 people are missing without trace, presumably buried in mass graves.

Mass graves continue to be discovered. In August 2006 one mass grave was opened and 1005 bodies were discovered in it.

10 refugee camps remain open with approximately 1000 people in each camp.

20,000 families are living without sanitary facilities.

60% of the population is unemployed.

Post Traumatic War Stress Syndrome is now the greatest enemy. Thousands of former soldiers who survived the war are mentally crippled because of their trauma and are incapable of working.

Army Pensions have been recently cut by 70% and now average €30.00 per month.

Social Welfare Benefits are non existent in Bosnia Herzegovina.

A typical monthly salary for a doctor is €400.00, a nurse recevies €125,00 and a shop assistant €100.00.

The cost of hospital care is enormous and as a result a very substantial amount of people are unable to purchase medicines and pay for medical treatments. Government funding for hospitals is extremely curtailed and the hospital facilities are reflective of those provided in western Europe forty years ago.

Woman now resort to selling their kidneys as a means of providing much needed money to feed their children and sustain a roof over their heads.

It is envisaged that it will now be 2016 before Bosnia Herzegovina will be in a position to join the European Union as the Government's only wealth is in Administrators, with 14 Governments and over 150 Ministers.