Such co-religionists are not needed. Bosnjak's Bihac is ready to expel migrants

The European Union, as well as the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, have distanced themselves from the fact that the northwestern Una-San canton of the Federation of (Muslim-Croatian) BiH is overcrowded with illegal migrants from Asia and Africa who want to get to Europe through Croatia.

The cantonal authorities located in the city of Bihac want to resettle all foreigners from the cities to the abandoned Serbian village of Lipa, which is opposed by the Serbs who want to return to their native places twenty-five years after the end of the war.

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The mayor of Bihac, Şuhret Fazlic, said that every day there is an uncontrolled influx of migrants from the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh through Una Sana Canton, and several thousand people are now living on the streets, in public places, in abandoned buildings.

“We are again left alone with a problem,” stated the mayor. “About a thousand people live in the camp on the territory of the village of Lipa, and we know that this place can accommodate a significantly larger number of migrants. Electricity and water have not yet been supplied there, although we are fully prepared for this. But we encountered very strange behavior and atmosphere, or rather ignorance. If there is no quick appropriate response from the (central - ed.) authorities, we will again have to solve the problem ourselves, because we can no longer allow our citizens to live in fear and discomfort. We have waited a long time and are now ready to take radical steps.”

According to the Cantonal Police Office, more than 7 thousand illegal migrants are currently in Bihac, Cazin and Velika Kladusa, and about 4 thousand of them are outside migrant centers. Members of the Task Force on the Migrant Situation in Una-Sana Canton said that the situation in this part of BiH is probably the most difficult since the influx of illegal migrants began. Observers expressed dissatisfaction with the response to the problem of international and European organizations that prevent the deportation of migrants, but ignore the fact that these people are not sent to BiH, but to the EU, but EU member Croatia does not allow them onto its territory.

The aforementioned Serbian village of Lipa was historically part of the community of Bosanski Petrovac, with its center in the city of the same name, inhabited predominantly by Serbs: in 1991, Serbs made up 11 thousand 600 people there, while Bosniaks - 3 thousand 200. The community itself was part of the historical Cazina region, part of which withdrew during the war of the 90s and was controlled by the proteges of the Islamist authorities in Sarajevo - their center was Bihac, the other entered the Muslim-Yugoslav Republic of Western Bosnia, allied with the Serbs, with its center in the city of Velika Kladusa. After the defeat of the latter in 1995, by the decision of American geostrategists, this territory, according to the Dayton Agreements of 1995, went to the Federation (Muslim-Croatian) 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 creating all sorts of obstacles for them, including settling migrants, which is strongly opposed advocates local Serbian community. As of 2013, the number of Serbs in the Bosanski Petrovac community is only 3 thousand 900 people, while Muslim Bosniaks are 3 thousand 100.