- 19 Mar 2009 16:12
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a fair comment...
However, the fact is: Muslims and Croats started with ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Hercegovina. Believe it or not. But that's the fact!
Besides that , Bosnia and Hercegovina had completely different ethnic picture before WWII , not to mention WWI....not to mention the time before Ottomans....It wouldn't be fair not take that in account, right?
But, name to me a war in which there was no movement of population?
Here is an example of ethnic cleansing without a war ---> Let me just remind you of 17 March 2004 - when Albanians in Kosmet expelled more than 250.000 Serbs from Kosmet in couple of days and burnt down most of the Serbian churches (some of them 10 centuries old, protected by UNESCO) in front of eyes and cameras of NATO/EU/USA/UNMIK and other members of "international community" - what happened 4 years later? Who raised that argument when the West recognized Kosmet? Did Muslim Sarajevo raised that argument? Nope, Muslims in Sarajevo celebrated that in the streets - not realizing that they were celebrating dissolution of Bosnia and Hercegovina, too
I think what Bosnjak meant was not only that the current borders of RS, but also the ethnic composition of its districts was changed through ethnic cleansing. However, if BiH were to be taken apart, the most practical basis for separation would be on ethnic lines, and now you have the situation that this ethno-geographic distribution was achieved through some rather non-Kosher means. In other words, many of the districts were Serbs now form an absolute majority did not have absolute Serb majorities before the war, so the argument goes that the Serbs would in effect be rewarded for ethnic cleansing.
a fair comment...
However, the fact is: Muslims and Croats started with ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Hercegovina. Believe it or not. But that's the fact!
Besides that , Bosnia and Hercegovina had completely different ethnic picture before WWII , not to mention WWI....not to mention the time before Ottomans....It wouldn't be fair not take that in account, right?
But, name to me a war in which there was no movement of population?
Here is an example of ethnic cleansing without a war ---> Let me just remind you of 17 March 2004 - when Albanians in Kosmet expelled more than 250.000 Serbs from Kosmet in couple of days and burnt down most of the Serbian churches (some of them 10 centuries old, protected by UNESCO) in front of eyes and cameras of NATO/EU/USA/UNMIK and other members of "international community" - what happened 4 years later? Who raised that argument when the West recognized Kosmet? Did Muslim Sarajevo raised that argument? Nope, Muslims in Sarajevo celebrated that in the streets - not realizing that they were celebrating dissolution of Bosnia and Hercegovina, too
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