Posted on 10/18/2009 4:36:23 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Constitutional crisis threatens to cause the collapse of the political system, the country's leaders have warned.
The concerns have been triggered by Bosnian Serb leaders who have stepped up their demands for independence with a warning the country is no longer "sustainable".
The growing ethnic divisions have raised fears of a return to the fighting which claimed the lives of up to 110,000 people between 1992 and 1995.
Senior European and US officials have called an emergency meeting in Sarajevo on Tuesday to meet the country's leaders to find a solution.
The crisis centres on attempts to overhaul the constitution which was imposed on the country in 1995 in the wake of the war.
Since then Bosnia has been made up of two semi-independent entities the Serbs' Republika Srpska and the Muslim-Croat Federation.
The two are linked with weak central institutions whose functioning is often obstructed by ethnic rivalries.
Serb groups claim attempts to streamline the complex government system are designed to undermine their position and absorb them into stronger central state.
Milorad Dodik, the Bosnian Serb prime minister, has described constitutional changes as "unnecessary and unacceptable".
"Bosnia is an unsustainable country ... the international community has overplayed its hand in Bosnia, and this will become evident in the end," he said.
Mr Dodik has called for referendum on self-determination to be included in the constitution that could pave the way for Republika Srpska's independence from Bosnia.
Sulejman Tihic, the leader of Bosnia's largest Bosnian Muslim party, said he fears that a new war could be looming.
"If it continues to go on like this, there is no question there will be conflict. It's just a question of what kind of conflict there will be, and is it going to be in three months, six months or one year?,"
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Obama will pull troops from Afghanistan to support his Muzzie Bosnian brothers.
Hmmm... thought they were still at war anyway... at least in principle... No thanks to the wonderful and always reliable UN though...
Our attack on Serbia was one of the worst things this country has ever done. Ever.
We literally sent in special forces teams to murder Serbian leaders.
Clinton fought that war on the wrong side. And we’re still paying the price.
Let’s see. The last time we sided with the Muslims against the Serbian Christians. With the Muslims in charge, they proceeded to destroy every church they could get to, and ethnically cleanse all the Christians as well.
Perhaps this time, Europe should relocate the Christians, then build a big wall around Muslim Bosnia, and put all the troublesome Muslims of Europe in there. It would be like Europe’s Gaza Strip. And anyone who wanted to go there to deplore their condition would be advised that once inside, they would stay inside as well.
OH PLEASE SPARE ME THE TEARS for the vicious brutal regime of Serbia.
They were NO DIFFERENT than Nazis with their campaign of ethnic cleansing.
Serbia was and remains one of the most vicious and racist countries in the world. They are brutal disgusting vicious thugs that should have been bombed back to the stone age where they belong.
What is your source of sympathy for the serbs? That the Bosniaks are muslims and thus deserve rape and killing???
What about the Croats who were brutally raped and murdered by the Serbs?? To the last man, woman and raped child they were Christian. And White! And European!!
What about the Slovenians who were killed and murdered by te Serbs?
Serbia is a disgusting pariah racist state that is doing EXACTLY today what Hilter did.
Go Free Croatia! Go Free Herzegovina! Go Free Slovenia! and yes.. by Golly.. go free Bosnia...
They were on Clinton's side. Albanian Maoists.

yitbos
No, I think all he managed to do was blow down the Chinese Embassy and get a Stealth Fight shot down while performing a mission designed for F-16's and A-10's...
Let the Europeans solve this one, we have bigger fish to fry.
I believe most of what you said is simply wrong. I am sure you could find examples of atrocities committed by Serbs but from what I can tell they were not as bad as the Muslims. It may have seemed worse because the Serbs were winning.
Take your Serb-hating lies and spew them elsewhere..... Serbia is comprised of 18 different ethnic minorities. If they were so hated why on earth would these people choose to live there?.....what are the statistics of Croatia...almost pure Croatian????
http://www.osce.org/documents/srb/2008/02/29908_en.pdf
May God bless the Christian Serbs is their quest to remove the aliens.
“Serb hating lies”??? Ha!!!
Let us talk to ALL the major ethnicities that composed the old Fascist (and yet simultaneously Communist) Yugoslavia.
Croats: Don’t get along with the Serbs
Slovenes: Don’t get along with the Serbs
Herzegovinians: Dont’ get along with the Serbs
Bosniaks: Well.. I guess the few that are left.. don’t get along with the Serbs
Now, let us look at the Serbian neighbors. Both Austrians and Italians DON’T get along with the Serbs.
I saw firsthand what was done to the Croats (in particular) and also the Slovenes.
The ethnic cleansing of the Croats was VICIOUS. Rape camps were run by the Serbs. I won’t go into any more details.. but suffice it to say.. the Serbs used to record on video their deeds. If ever you feel like puking, I can recommend a contact in the Hague, who will play back those confiscated videos for you. You will be sick all over.
Bismarck was right, The whole of the Balkans is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
You said that right my friend. The Balkans have caused untold grief to us.
Probably the worst mistake the West made was to oppose the Russian invasion of the Ottoman empire. We should let Russia take over Anatolia, given them Serbia and then built a massive wall between the Slavic kingdoms and the rest of Europe and been free of war in Europe forever.
The Slavs may be Christian but they don’t play too well with the other Europeans. I don’t mean the Orthodox faith as Greeks etc get along just fine with other Europeans. I mean the Slavs have a fault line with the Europeans.
I don’t pretend to understand why and as with any old fight, there has to be fault on BOTH sides. But the Slav/European conflicts over the last 300 years RUINED Christianity and the West
If the Islamics are powerful today it is SOLELY due to this CRAP fighting among ourselves.
Christian on Christian violence has killed more in the last century and destroyed our Western civilization.
Ah yes — ANOTHER War To Make The World Safe For Islam — and American boys and girls will pay in blood — AGAIN!!
Ah yes — ANOTHER War To Make The World Safe For Islam — and American boys and girls will pay in blood — AGAIN!!
This could get very interesting. I doubt very much that Russia will sit on the sidelines again if the Serbs are attacked from abroad...this could get very interesting.
Serbians = The Good Guys!
Bosnians/Albanians = The Bad Guys!
It’s just that simple, really.
It’s not murder if it’s war. It’s assassination.
Sounds like a job for a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
The Serbs obviously haven’t forgotten the hundreds of thousands of Serbs murdered by Croats and Muslims (allies of Hitler) in death camps and by shootings during WW2. You know which side the Obamanation will back.
Go Serbs. May God be with you.
It was an honest mistake. We bombed and murdered the wrong side in the conflict.
Thank you, First Rapist!
For the benefit of the sad multitude which remains clueless.
As an interesting sidelight, Daniel Pearl was murdered by the Muslim Mass Murderers as payback for his investigative reporting on the fraudulent Bosnian "massacres" by the Serbs.
Please read the book at post #29 (or have someone read it to you,) then we can discuss your hysterical totally muslim propagadist posts.
Despite the UN’s desparate efforts, they were unable to find the mass graves that the croats claimed existed. You can’t have genocide without leaving evidence.
I’m not sure what your problem is, but I’m sure it’s hard to pronounce.
yitbos
An obvious muslim apologist troll. They have no control over English punctuation and the restrained use of exclamation points.
The author of Unholy Terror (post #29) started out determined to document the atrocities of the Serbs. For reasons that become obvious as you read the facts, the truth that was painstakingly revealed (and documented) was the direct opposite.
“Abdul” Ha! :)
That is a good one. I will share that with all the families of the dead Croats I had to visit back in the early 90s.
Notice, how no one can deny anything about the Croats. Everything keeps coming back to the Bosniaks. That was not even my main thrust as I personally have not visited Bosnia.
But I was on the ground in Croatia and I saw FELLOW Chritians massacred by the Serbs.
And spare me the stupid historical revenge nonsense that Serbs always roll out. That is exactly what makes the Serbs like Al Qaeda and other Muslim crazies.
How can you rape and kill a 16 year old girl because of what happened in 1944. What is more important (and this applies to all of you Serb appeasers) how can you all JUSTIFY a current atrocity based on an old one????
Sloves, Croats, Macedonians and Montenegrins are ALL White, European and Christian. Why were they all invaded and destroyed by the Serbs???
So, it seems like the most of you are in favor of Genocide when it comes to killing Bosniaks.
Ok..great.. go for it..enjoy the hate in your heart..
What about the Croats and the Slovenes and the rest of them? What excuse should we now use for killing FELLOW Christians and Europeans??
Thank God for the guts and determination of the brave Slovenes who broke away from the abortion that was Yugoslavia. Today Slovenia is a MODERN and RICH nation that is thriving. Whenever I visit Slovenia, I cannot even tell that at one point it was a Socialist hellhole put down by the Serbs.
Croatia too is recovering well. And if the Greeks ever get off the Macedonian’s backs, they too will recover.
Montenegro, alas, seems lost to the Russian Mafia. Never was I so depressed as when I saw Montenegro. It is now officially a Russian dominated place. They control all the corrupt levers of power.
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Croats ans Bosnians have been proven liars. End of discussion.
The Christians destroyed all their own churches? Get real.
Croats and Bosnians embraced Hitlers and aided the Nazis. They aided Hitler.
That's all I need to know.
Have a nice day.
Thanks for spewing forth all of the Clintonista propaganda.
Now go away, n00b.
I am sorry mister Former Lib (already one count against you), who you calling Noob and who you calling Clintonista?
Have you ever been to Croatia or Slovenia or Montenegro? EVER?? I have and in the mid 1990s.
So spew your Hilter loving Nazi crap somewhere else. Genocide is genocide simple as that.
The Croats killed were Christian and white. So take your Serb loving Fascist hysteria somewhere else.
Ask ANY American who was on the ground in Croatia in the mid 1990s and without exception each and everyone of them will tell you about the atrocities the Serbs did.
Screw Slobodan and his ilk who continued the ugly tradition of Genocide to the end of the 20th century.
And screw all of you Genocide lovers who think that by throwing some anti muslim comments you can justify all the genocide that the Serbs have done against CHRISTIANS!
If the Serbs had had their way in the 1990s Croats, Slovenes and Macedonians would have been wiped out to the last man, woman and child.
Slovenia especially pissed me off. I was on the ground when Serbia invaded. There has been ZERO Serb presence in Slovenia and Slovenia was never part of any Serb empire.
Still that ruthless blood sucker Slobodan invaded Slovenia.
I am glad the Slovenes kicked Serb butt back to their country.
Slovenia is rich today. Prosperous and Capitalist
Serbians were the ones fighting the Nazis, Clintonista.
The Croats and the Muslim Bosnias formed SS groups to help the Nazis, n00b.
You are deranged.
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