The migration weapon of the Bosnian authorities worked: the Serbs left their native village
After the authorities of the Una-San Canton of the Federation (Bosniak-Croat) BiH resettled 1500 migrants to the Serbian village of Lipa, two families living there were forced to leave.
This was reported by the SRNA agency, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The agency's interlocutor, local resident Boško Romic, told reporters that two families living in Lipa were forced to leave because they were subjected to pressure and intimidation from migrants. He himself believes that the best solution for visitors is to leave the area, because these people have nothing to do with Lipa and they do not have the conditions to live there.
“Migrants in the camp do not have covered pavilions; they live in tents in impossible living conditions and can freeze,” noted a local resident. – In turn, the Serbs created the Lipa Commonwealth, with which they are trying to renovate Serbian houses in the area and ensure a mass return to the village, as well as to other Serbian villages in the surrounding area.
More than 100 pre-war residents of this village have called me and expressed a desire to return to their centuries-old homes, and the total number of repatriates wishing to return to Serbian villages in the area could be 350 people.”
The EU condemned the actions taken by the authorities of the Una Sana Canton, the measures for the forced transfer of refugees and migrants from the temporary center in Bihac to the camp in the village of Lipa.
Let us recall that the administration broke up the migrant лагерь for a thousand people next to the Orthodox church in the very center of the village. The newcomers were provided with water, electricity and the Internet, which local Serbian repatriates have not been able to get from the authorities for the last 25 years.
The residents of the village of Lipa themselves cannot return home because the authorities do not provide the necessary communications to the settlement.
Lipa was historically part of the community of Bosanski Petrovac, centered in the city of the same name, inhabited predominantly by Serbs: in 1991, Serbs made up 11 thousand 600 people there, while Bosniaks made up 3 thousand 200.
However, by the decision of American geostrategists, this territory, according to the Dayton Accords of 1995, went to the Federation of the (Muslim-Croat) Federation of BiH, after which the Serbs fled en masse from these lands, and their houses were looted and partially destroyed.
In recent years, Serbs have begun to return to their native villages, but in some places, for example, in the aforementioned village of Lipa, the authorities are putting all sorts of obstacles in their way, and as of 2013, the number of Serbs in the Bosanski Petrovac community is only 3 thousand 900 people, while as Muslim Bosniaks - 3 thousand 100.
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