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Bosnia 'on brink of new civil war'
The Telegraph ^ | 10/19/2009 | Bruno Waterfield

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bonlyboy; bosnia; newestdhimmwit; squawk; ustashilover
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1 posted on 10/18/2009 4:36:23 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
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To: bruinbirdman

Obama will pull troops from Afghanistan to support his Muzzie Bosnian brothers.


2 posted on 10/18/2009 4:38:31 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: bruinbirdman

Hmmm... thought they were still at war anyway... at least in principle... No thanks to the wonderful and always reliable UN though...


3 posted on 10/18/2009 4:43:16 PM PDT by Deagle
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To: bruinbirdman
Hey Bosnia...been there, done that...doing it tomorrow (or sometime in the very near future).
4 posted on 10/18/2009 4:44:19 PM PDT by IrishPennant (Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.)
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To: bruinbirdman

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.


5 posted on 10/18/2009 4:49:54 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: bruinbirdman
I thought Bill Clinton fixed this?????
6 posted on 10/18/2009 4:56:20 PM PDT by USMA '71 ((Re-elect no one!))
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To: bruinbirdman

Clinton fought that war on the wrong side. And we’re still paying the price.


7 posted on 10/18/2009 4:58:23 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: USMA '71
Yeah, a real southern deal.
8 posted on 10/18/2009 5:02:29 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Truth--The liberal's Kryptonite)
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To: bruinbirdman

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.


9 posted on 10/18/2009 5:09:01 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: yarddog

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...


10 posted on 10/18/2009 5:10:31 PM PDT by SoftwareEngineer (`)
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To: Cicero
"Clinton fought that war on the wrong side."

They were on Clinton's side. Albanian Maoists.

yitbos

11 posted on 10/18/2009 5:12:37 PM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: USMA '71
I thought Bill Clinton fixed this?????

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...

12 posted on 10/18/2009 5:13:04 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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To: bruinbirdman

Let the Europeans solve this one, we have bigger fish to fry.


13 posted on 10/18/2009 5:31:29 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (He said red, yellow, black or white, All are equal in his sight, Mmm, mmm, mm!, Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: SoftwareEngineer

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.


14 posted on 10/18/2009 5:31:30 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
And...he also nailed that trainload of civilians commuting to work real good.
15 posted on 10/18/2009 5:33:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
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To: SoftwareEngineer
Serbia was and remains one of the most vicious and racist countries in the world

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

16 posted on 10/18/2009 5:56:11 PM PDT by MadelineZapeezda (Promoted by God to be a Mother!!!! Thanks, Susan)
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To: MadelineZapeezda

May God bless the Christian Serbs is their quest to remove the aliens.


17 posted on 10/18/2009 6:00:09 PM PDT by londonfog
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To: MadelineZapeezda

“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.


18 posted on 10/18/2009 6:03:28 PM PDT by SoftwareEngineer (`)
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To: bruinbirdman

Bismarck was right, The whole of the Balkans is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.


19 posted on 10/18/2009 6:05:21 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

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.


20 posted on 10/18/2009 6:10:44 PM PDT by SoftwareEngineer (`)
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