In Bosnia and Herzegovina, a false step in the nationalist tango

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While Bosnia and Herzegovina has still not resolved the crisis of last year, when Milorad Dodik, the strongman of the Serb Republic, threatened to split the central state in response to the decision of the outgoing high international representative , Valentin Inzko, to prohibit the denial of genocide and war crimes [perpétrés dans les années 1990], now the country is once again in the grip of turbulence.

This time, it was the attempt to reform the electoral law, wanted by the new representative of the international community in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Christian Schmidt, which set fire to the powder. We take out our weapons, we brandish the threat of war, and nationalisms, on all sides, are exacerbated. It is an election year. On October 2, the country goes to the polls. On July 27, Dodik said:

“I want to see the independence of Republika Srpska in my lifetime. The processes are accelerating, what is happening in Sarajevo clearly shows that the political demands of Muslims are impossible. We need to come up with a new structure for the country.”

The response of Bakir Izetbegovic, the former paragon president of Bosnian and Muslim ethno-national politics, was quick to respond. He warned: “We did the count. We know exactly how many hunters [hommes armés], young people and drone instructors we have. The Bosnians did not attack anyone, but they have the right to be vigilant, the right to defend themselves within the framework of the Constitution and the law.”

Aspirations to dismemberment

At a time when the Serbian and Croat political parties alike speak with contempt of the idea of ​​a Bosnia and Herzegovina as “citizen state”, the strong man of the Bosnian Croats, Dragan Covic, threatens for his part a territorial reorganization of Bosnia-Herzegovina, that is to say the creation of a separate Croatian entity. We even hear the Croatian-American lawyer Luka Misetic, formerly attached to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, talk about the right of neighboring states, namely Croatia and Serbia, to lift the Dayton peace agreement which ended the 1992-1995 war, although they were not guarantors, but only signatories.

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