Bosnia: Regionalization proposal on table

The Serbs would be wise to engage in a constructive dialogue with the Croats in Bosnia on how to make the Bosnian state completely decentralized with the Presidency as that of just a figurehead as is the case in Switzerland.No moves toward political centralization will be for the benefit of the Bosnian Croats and Serbs.The Muslims can have influence only over their own people and not those who do not wish to live in an Islamic state.

Yugoslavia was not a decentralized state when the republics declared independence. Milosevic wanted a Yugoslavia dominated by Serbs and centralized with Serbs being in the highest positions. Also Silajdzic does not want an Islamic state and neither do a large majority of the Bosnians. By the way if Bosnian Serbs want to live in a country dominated by Serbs they can move to Serbia. Oh wait the government and a majority of the people of Serbia don't want them in Serbia and treat them bad! Same thing with Croatia and their treatment of Bosnian Croats.

If they want a decentralized state, than it's time for RS to achieve its independence and Bosnia will have its decentralized state. Heck if this is what they really wanted then they wouldn't have left an already decentralized state in Yugoslavia. Hmm must have another motivation?

Ljubisa, are you a member of the SDA?, SILAJDZIC is a nationalist fullstop he wants an Iranian style state where minorities are treated with disdain. By the way who brought the Muhadajeen to Bosnia and why are they still there 11 years later?

The Bosnian Muslims agreed for something similar in the Cutileiro-Carrington Plan in early 1992. The plan was for an independent but regionalised B-H.
Izetbegovic then withdrew from the plan thinking he could gain more with a war, but ended up with Dayton.

"Milosevic wanted a Yugoslavia dominated by Serbs and centralized with Serbs being in the highest positions."

If this was the case then why did SM support the the above agreement?

"The constitutional status of the Serbs, Croats and Muslims in Bosnia will remain intact, but the Constitution amended in this manner would prevent any territorial splitting of Bosnia."

How's that going to prevent anything? Serbia's constitution acknowledges Kosovo as an integral part of Serbia, and look what's happening.

Looks like someone's running alittle scared trying to prevent a break up. Good luck.

Well said Ljubisa.

Many of the visions of the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina on display in this forum are bizarre and certainly ill-informed. If Milosevic, Karadzic, Mladic and their legions of drunk, brutal hillbillies couldn't create a Greater Serbia during four years of barbarism in the early 1990s, then what chance it will suddenly be realised now?

And this recurring belief that Mesic and Zagreb are just waiting for the opportunity to join Serbs in a cunning plan to finally divide BiH into Greater Croatia and Greater Serbia is so beyond the realms of possibility that it's simply amusing.

Oh, please, the claim that Bosniaks want to create an "Islamic, Mujaheedin" state is ridiculous. Have you ever been to Sarajevo? There are 50 caffe bars to every mosque, the women wear mini-skirts, and most people spend far more time discussing the latest Italion fashions then religion. Grow up.

The Serbs would be wise to engage in a constructive dialogue with the Croats in Bosnia on how to make the Bosnian state completely decentralized with the Presidency as that of just a figurehead as is the case in Switzerland.No moves toward political centralization will be for the benefit of the Bosnian Croats and Serbs.The Muslims can have influence only over their own people and not those who do not wish to live in an Islamic state.

Ljubisa, are you a member of the SDA?, SILAJDZIC is a nationalist fullstop he wants an Iranian style state where minorities are treated with disdain. By the way who brought the Muhadajeen to Bosnia and why are they still there 11 years later?

If they want a decentralized state, than it's time for RS to achieve its independence and Bosnia will have its decentralized state. Heck if this is what they really wanted then they wouldn't have left an already decentralized state in Yugoslavia. Hmm must have another motivation?

"The constitutional status of the Serbs, Croats and Muslims in Bosnia will remain intact, but the Constitution amended in this manner would prevent any territorial splitting of Bosnia."

How's that going to prevent anything? Serbia's constitution acknowledges Kosovo as an integral part of Serbia, and look what's happening.

Looks like someone's running alittle scared trying to prevent a break up. Good luck.

Yugoslavia was not a decentralized state when the republics declared independence. Milosevic wanted a Yugoslavia dominated by Serbs and centralized with Serbs being in the highest positions. Also Silajdzic does not want an Islamic state and neither do a large majority of the Bosnians. By the way if Bosnian Serbs want to live in a country dominated by Serbs they can move to Serbia. Oh wait the government and a majority of the people of Serbia don't want them in Serbia and treat them bad! Same thing with Croatia and their treatment of Bosnian Croats.

Well said Ljubisa.

Many of the visions of the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina on display in this forum are bizarre and certainly ill-informed. If Milosevic, Karadzic, Mladic and their legions of drunk, brutal hillbillies couldn't create a Greater Serbia during four years of barbarism in the early 1990s, then what chance it will suddenly be realised now?

And this recurring belief that Mesic and Zagreb are just waiting for the opportunity to join Serbs in a cunning plan to finally divide BiH into Greater Croatia and Greater Serbia is so beyond the realms of possibility that it's simply amusing.

The Bosnian Muslims agreed for something similar in the Cutileiro-Carrington Plan in early 1992. The plan was for an independent but regionalised B-H.
Izetbegovic then withdrew from the plan thinking he could gain more with a war, but ended up with Dayton.

"Milosevic wanted a Yugoslavia dominated by Serbs and centralized with Serbs being in the highest positions."

If this was the case then why did SM support the the above agreement?

Oh, please, the claim that Bosniaks want to create an "Islamic, Mujaheedin" state is ridiculous. Have you ever been to Sarajevo? There are 50 caffe bars to every mosque, the women wear mini-skirts, and most people spend far more time discussing the latest Italion fashions then religion. Grow up.