ZAVNOBIH – NEDOVRŠENA ISTORIJA BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE
ZAVNOBIH – BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA’S UNFINISHED HISTORY

Summary/Abstract: In the author’s view, no other event of the thousand-year history of Bosnia and Herzegovina can compare in importance with ZAVNOBiH. Founded in Mrkonjić-grad on 25-26 November 1943, ZAVNOBiH, the National Antifascist Council of the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, restored Bosnia and Herzegovina’s statehood at the height of the war against the fascist occupying forces and domestic quislings, thanks to the National Liberation Movement of BiH, ending 480 years of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s existence within various state systems – the Ottoman, the Habsburg Empire, the hegemonic regimes of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Hitler’s German occupation and its puppet state known as the Independent State of Croatia (NDH). ZAVNOBiH evolved in three stages. In the first, it operated as the general political representative body of the National Liberation Movement of BiH; in the second, it constituted itself as the supreme state authority of BiH; and it began the third by inaugurating the shape to be taken by the socio-political system as defined by what was known as scientific socialism. The basic and enduring values and orientation of ZAVNOBiH are: – the national equality of the peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina – Serbs, Bosniacs (Muslims) and Croats; – the political equality of BiH within Democratic Federal Yugoslavia; – the democratic rights and freedoms set out in the Declaration on the rights of the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Unlike the Dayton Constitution, which legitimized the nationalist partition of BiH into ethnic entities brought about by aggression, ZAVNOBiH is the expression and symbol of the historic identity and integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a historical phenomenon that has no parallel in the entire history of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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