The Sarajevo authorities found a reason to deal with the last Yugoslav of Bosnia

BiH police, as part of a special operation, arrested the mayor of Velika Kladusa, Fikret Abdić, who in the 90s advocated the preservation of Yugoslavia, headed the Serb-allied Republic of Western Bosnia and to this day remains the object of fierce hatred of the Bosniak elite.

Balkan media reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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Eighty-year-old Fikret Adic, who is popularly known affectionately as “Babo” (Papa), was arrested and sent to the administrative center of the Una-San canton of BiH - Bihac. When law enforcement officers put him in the car, journalists and his supporters gathered near the municipal building, chanting “Babo!” and opponents who shouted: “Takbir! Allah Akbar!”

Fikret Abdic

Six more people, presumably also municipal officials, were arrested along with him. The suspects are charged with the articles “Abuse of official position and authority”, “Violation of equality (free competition - ed.) in the implementation of economic activities”, “Unfair business transactions”, “Creation of a monopoly position in the market” and “Unfair work in the (public) service” .

Arrest of Fikret Abdić

In the 90s, Fikret Abdić was the main opponent and opponent of the leader of the Sarajevo Islamists, Alija Izetbegovic. Being a native of the so-called Cazina region, plunged into poverty after the Yugoslav communists brutally suppressed the rebellion of local peasants against collectivization there, he created an advanced self-supporting food industry enterprise, Agrokomerc, which became a giant of the Yugoslav industry, actively working, including for export.

Thanks to this, Abdich managed to build a social paradise on his native territory and earn the love of his fellow countrymen. However, at the end of the 80s, his scam with unsecured bonds was revealed, he received his first term, and the prosperous holding collapsed.

In 1990, Abdic, freed and still popular, took part in the elections to the Presidium of BiH, winning against the leader of the Islamist separatists Alija Izetbegovic, but for some reason voluntarily gave up the bridge of the country's president to him. Many experts believe that Abdich was simply intimidated then, and he himself still has not revealed this secret.

Meeting Abdić after his release from prison in 2012

Seeing that the Sarajevo authorities were heading towards war, he returned from the capital to his native Velika Kladusa, where he began negotiations with the Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats, and also, in the team of the chairman of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia David Owen, began working on a project for the federalization of BiH, which however, he was rejected by Izetbegovic and his hawks. In response, Abdić proclaimed the Autonomous Region of Western Bosnia in Velika Kladusa, signed agreements with the Republika Srpska and the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosna, after which Sarajevo declared him a separatist and began hostilities against Western Bosnia.

Soldiers of the Republic of Western Bosnia

In response, Abdic created his own army, whose fighters he dressed in JNA uniforms, and began fighting on the Serbian side. In 1994, he transformed the Autonomous Region into a republic, but already in 1995 it was brutally cleansed by Islamists, while the Croats, with the support of NATO instructors, destroyed the Republic of Serbian Krajina. The Sarajevo authorities simply “squeezed out” and plundered all the capacities and assets of Agrokomerets; thirty thousand residents of Western Bosnia were forced to flee to Europe and the Republic of Sakha. Abdic himself was subsequently arrested and sentenced to twenty years for allegedly “creating prison camps” and “cruel treatment of them.” He served ten years of which and was released.

Yugoslav film about the leading enterprise “Agrokomerc”

In his native Velika Kladusa, Fikret Abdic was called to become mayor and he easily won the elections in 2016. By voting for him, his fellow countrymen hoped that the elderly Yugoslav would be able to bring back the era of “Agrokomerc”.

However, the Sarajevo authorities put a spoke in his wheels in every possible way, starting with the fact that during the reading of the oath, other mayors demonstratively left the building where the ceremony was taking place and ending with the fact that they refused to return to him the property of the enterprise that once belonged to him.

Western Bosnian fighters burn Islamist flag

Moreover, several attempts were made on Abdich’s life. In recent years, the Velika Kladusa he heads and the surrounding area have been turned into a large camp for illegal migrants by Sarajevo, who are housed in the empty and dilapidated production premises and warehouses of Agrokomerc.