The Mostar Association of War Victims, an NGO gathering Bosniak [Muslim] victims of the 1992-5 war in Bosnia, has condemned the initiative of group of Bosnian Croats, calling for the formation of a third entity in Bosnia besides the existing two.
Edin Batlak, from the Association of War Victims, told Bosnian news website Klix.ba on Wednesday that the initiative was far from the European values that main Croat parties – whose members launched the initiative – claim to advocate.
Bosnian Croat representatives in the western town of Tomislavgrad, at a meeting of the local cantonal assembly on Monday, adopted a declaration that criticised the Hague tribunal convictions of Bosnian Croat leaders and called for third, Croat entity in the country.
Following the 1995 Dayton Ohio Peace Agreement that ended the war in Bosnia, the country was divided into two entities – the Serb-dominated Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is home mainly to Bosniaks and Croats but in which Croats are a minority.
The Hague Tribunal, the ICTY, last November angered many Croats and Bosnian Croats when it found six former Bosnian Croat political or military officials guilty of crimes against humanity and other crimes against Bosniaks in so-called Herceg-Bosna, a statelet created by Bosnian Croats during the war.
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