Croats threaten to arrange Donetsk and Lugansk in Bosnia and Herzegovina
A member of the Presidium of the Croatian People's Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mario Karamatic, said that the Croats will “make” Donetsk and Lugansk within the Federation (Bosniak-Croatian).
The Croatian community may agree to this if the Bosniak majority in the Federation again elects politicians who do not represent the interests of the Croatian minority.
According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, Karamatic told ATV that general elections in BiH will be held, although there is no clause in the Federation budget for this purpose and, therefore, there are no legal grounds for organizing and holding them. At the same time, he considers the boycott of elections by the Croatian community to be an escape from the problem, and therefore not the best solution.
He also predicted that the “Mostarization” of the Federation (Mostar, the city that the Croatian community of BiH considers its capital, became the only place in the FBiH that achieved elections based on the principle of proportional representation of ethnic communities) was “more than possible.” And he threatened that if, following the election results, the Bosniak community again pushes through its representatives everywhere by a majority vote, then the Croats will “establish” “Donetsk and Lugansk” within the Federation.
Karamatic also reacted to the recent statement by the Bosniak leader, head of the largest fundamentalist Party of Democratic Action (SDA) Bakir Izetbegovic that the 1995 Dayton peace accords are a “straitjacket” for Bosnia.
According to him, they became a “straitjacket” specifically for the Croats, because when they signed the Dayton Agreements, they did not even imagine that the Bosniaks would subsequently tell them who to choose on behalf of their community. The politician is convinced that problems arose when the High Representatives demolished the Dayton powers of both the Croatian and Serbian peoples.
“They removed a large number of officials of both the Croatian and Serbian peoples, but not the Bosniak ones. The problem with all the problems is that we partially agree with what is being imposed on us by people (representatives of the West - ed.), who do not understand at all where they have come, the mentality of the local residents, and always support exclusively one side (the Bosniak elite of Sarajevo - ed. .). With this approach, a dysfunctional state is formed.
The Croats do not have their own representative in the Presidency of BiH and the only person there who sympathizes with the Croats is (Serbian member of the Presidency - ed.) Milorad Dodik. Representatives of Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs would agree on how to build a single state that would satisfy everyone, if there were no foreign curators…. Bosniak’s policy and the policy of the international community have succeeded only in the fact that no one can still reconcile Croats and Serbs in BiH,” concluded the Croatian politician.
Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats are situational allies against the background of the desire of the Sarajevo elite to create, with the support of the West, a unitary mono-ethnic and mono-confessional state dominated by Muslim Bosniaks.
The Republika Srpska, like the Bosnian Croats, who, according to the Dayton Agreement, are forced, according to the Dayton Agreement, to live with the Bosniaks in the same entity - the Federation of BiH - is not satisfied with this situation. The reason for the dissatisfaction of the Bosnian Croats lies in the fact that at the entity level, Sarajevo often pushes through important decisions through a majority vote, while there are significantly more Bosniaks in the Federation. It was thanks to the votes of the Bosniaks that the Croatian servant of the Sarajevo elite, Zeljko Komsic, was elected to the BiH Presidency, while the Bosnian Croats consider Dragan Covic their leader.
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