SARAJEVO, October 5 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Bosnian refugee Rasema Karcic still weeps when she thinks of her husband and two sons, killed by Serb forces near the southeastern Bosnian town of Visegrad 10 years ago.

And despite her determination to make the painful return journey from Sarajevo to her old town to vote in Saturday's general elections, Karcic said she had no hope that politicians could heal the social wounds of Bosnia's 1992-95 war, Agence France-Presse (AFP) said.

"I have lost everything in the war. My husband and two sons were killed during the summer months of 1992," said the 62-year-old Muslim, tears welling in her eyes.

"I never miss chance to go to Visegrad. I always vote there. But I have no hope that things are going to improve."

Another Muslim refugee, Sena Seta, 45, said she would vote for candidates from a Muslim nationalist party, even though Visegrad now lies in the Serb-run entity created after the 1995 Dayton peace accords.

Before the war, Muslims accounted for 63 percent of the population of the eastern municipality of Visegrad, but now it is dominated by Serbs who moved in after Serb paramilitary forces captured the town.

The polls, the fourth since the war, are the first since major constitutional changes were passed earlier this year guaranteeing multi-ethnic governments and fair representation for all ethnic groups in all levels of government.

It is hoped that one of the outcomes of the reforms, introduced under intense international pressure, will be more refugee returns and the effective reversal of war-time ethnic cleansing.

Some 28,000 Muslims accounted for 14.6 percent of Banja Luka's population before the war. Now there are only around 10,000, including up to 7,000 returned refugees, according to Muslim charity Merhamet.

"We are trying to teach them to reconcile and to become again aware of the good side of cohabitation," said Merhamet worker Sadika Korjenic, referring to all ethnic groups in Banja Luka.

"We are bringing them a message of hope. Maybe things will be better after the elections."

Bosnians voted Saturday, October 5, in crucial elections seen as their last chance to bury the ghosts of the 1992-95 war and embrace a multi-ethnic future within Europe.

More than two million Bosnians are eligible to vote in the fourth and most important elections since the country's Croat, Muslim and Serb communities turned on each other in the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II.

Brussels and Washington have made it clear that a vote for the same nationalist parties which led the country into war 10 years ago would mean economic isolation, stagnation and failure.

More than 7,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed after the fall of Srebrenica, in the worst massacre Europe has seen since World War II.

So far some 6,000 bodies have been exhumed from numerous mass graves around Srebrenica, but only some 300 have been identified.