Politička dimenzija hrvatsko-muslimanskih/bošnjačkih odnosa tijekom 1992. godine
Political Dimension of Croatian- -Muslim/Bosnian Relations in 1992

Summary/Abstract: International recognition of the independence of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) and the outbreak of intensive Serbian military aggression in April 1992 was the beginning of a new period of Croatian-Muslim/Bosnian relations. In this paper the author describes and analyses the political dimension of the said relations during the year 1992. Thus it is stressed that the international political action towards B&H at the time as well as exposure to very strong Serbian military aggression influenced a certain integration of the political and defensive efforts of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Croats and Muslims/Bosnians. However, in the same year a decisive influence on the character of the Croatian-Muslim/Bosnian relations were the opposed goals (of the leaderships) of the two nations with regard to the internal constitution of B&H and a contradictory attitude of the international community towards that issue. While the leadership of the Croatian people strived towards the organisation of B&H as a complex state consisting of three, tentatively speaking, national territorial units, the political leaders of the Muslim/Bosnian community promoted the transformation of the same country into a unitarian, ethnically non-decentralised entity. The inability to coordinate the mentioned constitutional options in a particular set of circumstances could have easily caused the eruption of the Croatian-Muslim/Bosnian military aggression in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Especially having in mind the encouragement of certain parties that would have profited from such a conflict.

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