As an introductory speaker on “Thirty Years of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Defense and Contemporary Challenges”, Karavelic pointed out that the international community is obliged, responsible and should do everything and correct its mistakes towards BiH today, in order to ensure its lasting future by building its social political system on the principles and principles of modern democracy, as a multiethnic and secular social community, or civil society, Federalna writes.
He reminded that after the collapse of the USSR and its military bloc, as well as the socialist bloc of Eastern European countries, the demolition of the Berlin Wall in the 1990s was followed by the dissolution of the SFRY, which the Greater Serbia nationalist Belgrade regime recognized as its chance to achieve its historical nationalist goals.
“It is planned to occupy BiH by force in a few weeks and forcibly keep it in truncated Yugoslavia or Greater Serbia, which was announced on June 28, 1989 in Gazimestan, followed two years later on May 25, 1991 by an agreement in Karadjordjevo between Slobodan Milosevic and Franjo Tudjman on the division of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” said Karavelic.
He specified that immediately after the international recognition, on April 8, 1992, the Presidency of BiH passed the Decree on the abolition of the former Republican TO Headquarters and formed a new TO Headquarters of the Republic of BiH, and the next day placing under the unified command of the TO Staffs with a deadline of April 15, 1992.
“The army whose predecessors are the Patriotic League and the Territorial Defense with its insignia is becoming a legal and legitimate armed force of the Government of RBiH, following the example of many countries in the world, which is becoming a respectable military force that will eventually defend BiH. The self-proclaimed Republika Srpska and HR Herceg Bosna and their armies, as well as the AP Western Bosnia and its army were parapolitical and paramilitary organizations,” Karavelic emphasized.
He pointed out that the international community of Bosnia and Herzegovina, although it recognized and accepted it into the UN, knowing who attacked it, imposed an arms embargo, which meant a death sentence for the army.
“During almost the entire period of the war, the Army defended BiH with the chests of its fighters in the extreme scarcity of everything necessary for conducting an armed struggle. The international community has left the Army at the mercy of the agrarians” said Karavelic.
