Serbia seeks arrest of former Muslim and Croat leaders in Bosnia

factcheckerFeb 27th, 2009 - 09:46:30

Just one correction -- while Bosnian Croats and Muslims (Bosniaks) did often fight together against Serbs, they also fought each other, especially during a bloody year beginning in the spring of 1993 and concluding with the Washington Agrement of March, 1994. The Croat/Bosniak conflict resulted in some of the war's nastiest incidents, including the destruction of the Mostar Bridge and the Ahmici massacre.

The Washington Agreement was later folded into Dayton and became the basis for the Federation of BiH, one of the nation's two entities -- the other is Republika Srpska (RS). The Federation contains 10 'cantons' and is designed largely to ensure that the Bosnian Croats, a much smaller group than Bosniaks (or Serbs), have sufficient political guarantees. The problem with this structure is that it is cumbersome and multilayered (unlike the RS); much of the criticism directed at BiH for being non-functional and having far too many ministers, bureaucrats etc. actually applies primarily to the Federation.

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BelisariusFeb 27th, 2009 - 11:55:37

You must be joking about the bloodletting between the Muslim and Croats.
Such nice people, both of them, the artful victims of Joe Biden's favourite thugs, the Serbs.

Don't ruin it now for us. We spent all this money and emotion on those nice people and you simply couldn't keep your mouth shut. You had to blurt it out.
Oh well, now we have to go back and rehash the things and find yet another genocide committed by the Serbs.

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