Bakir Izetbegovich admitted that he was at the origins of the creation of Islamist gangs
The leader of the largest Bosniak Party of Democratic Action and the de facto leader of the Muslim community in BiH said that he “foresaw” a bloody civil war back in 1986.
Bakir Izetbegovic told the Bosnian Islamic MTV IGMAN about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In 1986, I started telling people that there would be a war in BiH,” Bakir Izetbegovic opened up, without thinking about what was on a religious TV channel. – Even today I cannot explain what reasons I had for this. It's just an irrational feeling, an intuition based on what I read and what was happening around me. People's reaction to my predictions was very bad, but they still came true."
Let us recall that the war in BiH began only in 1992 thanks to the efforts of Bakir Izetbegovic’s father, Aliya Izetbegovic.
During the war: Aliya Izetbegovich (center), Bakir Izetbegovich far right
In the aforementioned 1986, Aliya Izetbegovic had already been in a Yugoslav prison for three years, having received fourteen years for the fundamentalist work “Islam between East and West,” for which he was also remembered for his programmatic “Islamic Declaration” of 1970, in which he, in fact, called for the creation of a unified Islamic state “from Morocco to Indonesia, from tropical Africa to Central Asia” and argued that “there can be neither peace nor coexistence between the Islamic faith and non-Islamic political institutions of power ...
Islamic renewal cannot begin without a religious revolution, but it cannot successfully continue and be implemented without a political revolution. Our path begins not with seizing power, but with conquering people.”
So it’s quite understandable what Bakir read while his father was behind bars, and he himself began to dream of war.
In the late 80s, when “democratization” similar to perestroika in the USSR began in the SFRY, Alija Izetbegovic was released ahead of schedule and he began vigorous political activity, creating the Islamist Democratic Action Party with an eye to the separation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the creation of a Muslim state on its territory.
“I insisted that people need to be armed,” Bakir Izetbegovich told a television journalist. “I bothered the late Aliya with this.” And he started doing it himself. He held rallies and speeches, and I was in the crowd and got to know people. They were militant, and we actually created an organization. It is much more important to have ten fighters, organized and willing to fight, than hundreds or thousands who will surrender their weapons at the first shot.”
Thus, Izetbegovic admitted that he was at the origins of the emergence of military paramilitary formations of the Party of Democratic Action, which later received the names “Green Berets” and “Patriotic League”, which carried out anti-state and anti-Serbian terror in Sarajevo in 1992.
Clip from the early 90s promoting Muslim paramilitary forces in BiH
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