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Civilians of Sarajevo in
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1993
running for cover to
avoid Serb snipers during the city’s siege
Photo: Chris Helgren/Corbis





OHIO, Nov. 21, 1995
from Centre left:
President Slobodan Milosevic
of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,
President Alija Izetbegovic
of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina,
and President Franjo Tudjman of the Republic of Croatia
sign the Dayton Peace Accords.
Photo: U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Brian Schlumbohm





Milorad Dodik September 2016 Photo: Reuters/ Dado Ruvic

Milorad Dodik
September 2016
Photo: Reuters/ Dado Ruvic






Croatian refugee families from Serb Republic
Photo: HINA



Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina
with entities of
Serb Republic/ Republika Srpska
and Croat Bosniak Federation






  1. I hope there is much better condition now, I heard many Bosniaks return to the Srpska entity and vice versa, right?

  2. HRVOJE MRAVAK says:

    if there is no united-sovereign-democratic bosnia+croatia has no future+bosniaks and croats have to make a military+cultural+political alliance.the washington agreement signed in croatias future capital city+split still exists.there will one day be a confederation+federation between croatia and bosnia in the short to long term.vojvodina+sanđak+montenegro+slovenia can join this future state if the will of their citizens vote in favour of this, in the future referendums that will be held..

    • Oh dear, anything is possible Hrvoje when a nation permits another to cut its future and borders. Croatia showed in 199o’s that it will not permit that and I don’t see why that needs to change. Even with weak government or president the people rise up to make their future. Slovenia is not likely to join anyone, even within Yugoslavia it considered itself “elitist” with no real will to mingle…

  3. “Dayton Accord should have either split BiH into three distinctive sovereign states (Bosniak, Croat and Serb) or insisted on retaining BiH as a single sovereign state without entities or divisions of autonomous territory between its constituent ethnic/national groups.” It is foreseeable that the west has resigned themselves to the former option if Dodik is not brought before an international court and there is no sign that he will. There is talk of trade offs as Kosovo is expected to hold a similar referendum. Our government’s silence on this matter makes them complicit in an avoidable potential conflict for reasons only the president keeps close to her chest.

    • MorenoP, time ticks away but victims never forget and they have living family that are voters – what a disappointment Cro gov and president are at this time – at least they should have rang the big bells condemning this

  4. JOhn Lovak.... says:

    We should have gone all the way to the Serbian border when we had the chance.During Operation Storm we shouldn’t have paid any heed to what the world said and liberated Bosna once and for all.

    • Yup, John, current times tend to show aggression pays of and consideration does not, being considerate to what others say can often lead one to shoot oneself in the foot

  5. MarySkroce says:

    Ina, your articles are always thought provoking, relevant and informative. Thank you!

  6. Reblogged this on Eyes of the Mind.

  7. Croatians are now a minority in Bosna and Herzegovina ,the Serbs have Republika Srbska and we are second class citizens in a Muslim lead country. Let’s not kid ourselves Republika Srbska is the least of our problems at this time, maybe we should take a leaf out of their book and salvage what is salvageable .

    • Ugh, MSP, do not like taking a leaf out of Serb’s book – Croats have never attacked somebody else’s land in their entire history and should not start now but to seek rights and self-determination in situation of oppression is a noble task that can be achieved with strength of defense.

  8. 3 weeks ago we were in republica srpska, our GPS sent us that way to Mostar by mistake. It was a shock for me…. Serbian flags everywhere, derogatory graffiti against Croats etc. I couldn’t get out of there quick enough. BiH definitely felt “on edge” when we were there. I hope nothing bad happens again, but we all know what serbs are like.

  9. The RS is a grotesque state-let founded on war crimes. It never should have been allowed. In a just and moral world this would never exist. The coddling, and appeasing of the Serbs only strengthened them and allowed for increased suffering of others. The powers that permitted this are truly accomplices to murder and crime, and should be condemned. But might it seems is always right. Had the US permitted Gotovina to re-retake Banja Luka we would be in a different and indeed more peaceful and stable situation. There was no legitimate reason to stop the retaking of Banja Luka. This was the fatal flaw. The only way to resolve the situation is for the RS to cease to exist. And to finally liberate the Serbs from their Great Serbia psychosis and return to their homeland of Serbia; where they can be truly be free to be Serb without fear of any victimization.

    • One wonders why the cruel Dayton experiment was permitted to exist and given that those creating it were grownups one must deduce the cruelty was inflicted on purpose, Sunman. I agree with you on Banja Luka and General Gotovina’s efforts to liberate areas and stop more genocide. Perhaps that is exactly why Dayton ensued – to stop actions that would see Serbs finally defeated. So hard to even think of these scenarios that led to Dayton.

  10. wishing for more
    understanding & healing
    in your sweet homeland.

  11. While visiting Sarajevo as part of a group tour in 2014, I didn’t realize how close it was to Republika Srpska.
    We had gone out to see something on the edges of Sarajevo–I forget what. Because of the narrow and curvy road, our Czech bus driver drove into the republic a little bit so he could safely turn around for the return route. I don’t remember a border checkpoint of any sort on the way other than a sign saying where we were.

    • Yes Elisa, there shouldn’t be a checkpoint or border there because Republika Srpska is still within BiH borders and is not a sovereign state nut an entity as pat of Dayton Accords – so we see where to from now… cheers

  12. excellent post

  13. If something does lead to conflict within BIH there is the very real possibility that the young Muslims from western Europe as well as the thousands who have returned home after being alleged to have fought in Syria will be trying to intrude into Bosnia. This sort of scenario has happened in the 1990’s with the Mujihadeens who came in from the likes of Afghanistan (trained by the US, damn them!). But this time around because of the numbers of them living in western Europe being very large this is a very frightening scenario. So unfortunately the Croats and its army will have to be very watchful from two opposing sides, not one!
    I don’t think neighbors like Slovenia and Hungary will be very helpful as we can see with their recent history. But I think the UK, soon to be a sovereign nation and already cooperating with Croatia in military drills, will help out Croatia for sure. I think the US will help a bit too.
    What a pity that the US has to come in and screw up the end of basically every scenario! They rejected Douglas MacArthur’s request to invade part of China to stop their troops from invading North Korea so the Korean region is in a perpetual state of war. Same with stopping Gotovina’s plan to go into Banja Luka as some of you have said. Not protecting the people in southern Vietnam from being exterminated by the northern Communists when they pulled their troops out of the capital. How sad!

  14. I wish us all to have peace and Independence, Ina. Sending your family and you prayers, love and hugs! xo

  15. Prayers, peace and solace to the refugees.

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