Nametnuti Vojni zakon SFRJ i otpor njegovom sprovođenju u Bosni i Hercegovini (1991. godine)
The Imposed Military Law of SFRY and Resistance to Its Implementation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1991)

Summary/Abstract: This article describes the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1991, following the adoption of the amended Law on Military Duty by the Assembly of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) in an incomplete composition. The law implied the transfer of recruitment and mobilization responsibilities from the republic’s jurisdiction directly to the jurisdiction of the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA). This was a serious violation of the sovereignty of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SR BiH), whose government decided to postpone the implementation of the imposed federal law on its territory. Citing this illegitimate federal law, the JNA demanded that the secretariats for national defense hand over military records, personal cards, files, and other documentation to the newly formed military-territorial authorities. Given the decision of the SR BiH government, a significant number of secretariats did not comply with these demands, which led to JNA forces forcefully confiscating the documentation. This resistance was staunchly led by secretaries who were members of the Patriotic League of Bosnia and Herzegovina or affiliated with it. As the Secretary for National Defense of the city of Sarajevo and simultaneously the commander of the First Staff of the Patriotic League, the author, based on extensive archival and memoir material, as well as his own memories, describes this period and the activities that represented the first organized form of resistance to the Greater Serbian aggressor – long before the onset of armed conflict.

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