The regular session of the Association of Independent Intellectuals “Circle 99” was held today on the topic “Who are the Bosnians threatening?” Who are the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina?”.
As said by the introducer prof. Ph.D. Senadin Lavić, the process of planned transformation of Bosnia into a random, artificial and temporary creation, which was allegedly constructed by the communists and partisans in 1943, and then by international negotiators in Dayton in 1995, has been going on for a long time.
It is an anti-Bosnian political model in which Bosnia is not recognized as a historical, cultural and political fact. In that model of political ideology, any possibility of a Bosnian nation and Bosnian identity is denied. Bosnia itself was stigmatized and interpreted as a hated non-existent category. They persistently try to impose the deception that there are no Bosnians in Bosnia – Lavić said.
He states that during the 20th century, through persistent political propaganda and the mediation of religious institutions, ethnic and national Serbs and Croats and partly Yugoslavs were imposed on Bosnia, i.e. the programs of “Greater Serbia, Svetosava exclusivism and all-Serbian territorialism” were planted, on the one hand, and the projects of “Greater Croats Pravaš Starčević, Endehazije and Tuđmanism”, on the other hand.
This tells us that within Bosnia we have not adequately produced counter-politics and political ideologies that would firmly oppose the dominant Serbian and Croatian anti-Bosnian hegemony, which perceives and defines Bosnia as an object of its own expansionism. The basic deception of the Serbian and Croatian ideologies on the soil of Bosnia was reflected in the transformation of religious groups into nations, whereby the Bosnian national group with Muslim beliefs is understood only as a Slavized religious group. She completely renounces any ethnicity, and then also nationality. Therefore, during the 20th century, Bosnian was completely ignored and not allowed – he added.
Prof. Ph.D. Enver Halilović notes that the opponents of the civil organization of the state of BiH advocate the theory of BiH as a multinational, not a multi-ethnic state.
In essence, it is about Stalin’s and Kardel’s definition of the nation, which served for operational political needs when a social group in communist states had to challenge the right to a national identity. Based on that, the national identity of the Bosniaks in Yugoslavia was contested until the end of that country, and today BiH and the possibility of its civil organization are contested, defining BiH as a tri-national state – said Halilović.
Prof. Ph.D. Zlatko Hadžidedić said that Bosnians certainly threaten the large-state projects of Serbia and Croatia, and that the Bosnian nation, if it were to be recognized at least as a theoretical possibility, would enslave existing groups that call themselves nations.
A nation is essentially any group of people that succeeds in asserting itself as a group with the right to sovereignty, that owns or pretends to establish its own state. Nations are different, but they are united by the demand for sovereignty. When we talk today about the tri-national state of BiH, it should be emphasized that it is impossible in the modern world of nation states. In the age of capitalism, no other type of state can exist – pointed out Hadžidedić and added that Bosnia and Herzegovina is threatened with disintegration if it is accepted that “it is a multinational state”.
