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The so-called ethnic differences in Bosnia were...
10:34 PM, Monday, May 3, 2010
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The so-called ethnic differences in Bosnia were really political and religiousBosnia had been the meeting place of three imperial expansions: the Catholic Holy Roman Empire from the west, the Orthodox Christian movement from the east, and the Muslim Ottoman Empire from the southIn 1991, the Bosnians were governed by a coalition of national unity headed by the leading Muslim politician, Alija Izetbegovic, and including the militant Serbian nationalist leader Radovan Karadzic, a Sarajevo psychiatrist
At first Izetbegovic wanted Bosnia to be an autonomous multi-ethnic, multi-religious province of YugoslaviaWhen Slovenia and Croatia were recognized by the international community as independent nations, Izetbegovic decided that the only way Bosnia could escape Serbian dominance was to seek independence, tooKaradzic and his allies, who were tied closely to Milosevic, had a very different agendaThey were supportive of Milosevics desire to turn as much of Yugoslavia as he could hold on to, including Bosnia, into a Greater SerbiaOn March 1, 1992, a referendum was held on whether Bosnia should become an independent nation in which all citizens and groups would be treated equallyThe result was an almost unanimous approval of independence, but only two-thirds of the electorate votedKaradzic had ordered the Serbs to stay away from the polls and most of them didBy then, Serb paramilitary forces had begun killing unarmed Muslims, driving them from their homes in Serb-dominated areas in the hope of carving up Bosnia into ethnic enclaves, or cantons, by forceThis cruel policy came to be known by a curiously antiseptic name: ethnic cleansing
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