Najbolje što Bosna ima – Bošnjaci Kulen-Vakufa i Ljutočke doline
THE BEST THAT BOSNIA HAS - BOSNIAKS OF KULEN VAKUF AND LJUTOČKA DOLINA

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with population of Bosniaks from Ljutočka dolina, micro-unity, its cultural, archeological and biological peculiarity. This area, known as The valley of heroes and Epic Border-land, today’s part of Una National park is the scene of many historical events and homeland of personalities such as Oraščanin Tale, Mujo Hrnjica and Captain Kulin. They are not the only ones. In town Kulen Vakuf was born the first Reis-ul-Ulema (Islamic superior) Mustafa Hilmi ef. Hadžiomerović. Ljutočka dolina was the scene one of the biggest mass crimes against Bosniaks, before the crime in Srebrenica, when Serbian nationalists killed about 2,500 Bosniaks from 6th to 8th September 1941, 50% of Ljutočka dolina population. This crime is rarely analyzed in official historiography, although this was one of the largest single acts of violence against Bosniaks before Srebrenica in 1995 and it was introduction in subsequent Chetniks war activities. People from Ljutočka dolina through generations transmitted their identity from parents to children as Bosniaks and religious Muslims expressing collective and individual self-awareness. Frontier guards and soldiers for generations, people from Ljutočka dolina, as well as generation during recent war, confirmed the sentence of epic hero Mustajbeg Lički that they are: The best that Bosnia has.

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