Genocide as a social and legal fact of Bosniak history Cover Image

Geoncid kao društvena i pravna činjenica bošnjačke historije
Genocide as a social and legal fact of Bosniak history

Author(s): Adib Đozić
Subject(s): Cultural history, Military history, Recent History (1900 till today), Studies in violence and power
Published by: JU Zavod za zaštitu i korištenje kulturno-historijskog i prirodnog naslijeđa
Keywords: genocide; genocide as a social and legal fact; Bosniak history of geoncide;

Summary/Abstract: Experience of 300 years of Bosniak history of genocide has resulted in a frightening realization that Bosniaks were the only European nation which,due to the genocide against them in the last three hundred years, now lives on the edge / boundary of the political and biological existence. This admonishing Bosniak reality most explicitly confirms the following facts. Bosniaks are the only European nation that, due to the crime of genocide carried out against them, are more numerous in the Diaspora than in their own country.In territorial and demographic terms Bosniaks live in three territorially unconnected enclaves: the area of Una-Sana canton, a territorial triangle that make cities of Sarajevo, Tuzla and Zenica, and the territory of Sandžak which is divided by the state borders of Serbia and Montenegro. Since the socio political causes of genocide have not yet been eliminated and because they are still active in peacetime, Bosniaks live in unstable and dysfunctional country desperately fighting for its survival, self-confident that the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the only guarantor of Bosniaks biological and political self preservation.

  • Issue Year: 4/2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 11-34
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: English