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To: dennisw
So now Kosovo is solid Muslim, same for Bosnia.>>

Actually, Bosnia is NOT "solid Muslim," quite the contrary. They're still about 44% of the population; Serbs 33%, Croats 22-25% and falling (the Croats are leaving for Croatia, while the Serbs are staying put--Croatia being marginally less of a hellhole than Serbia is) and about 2-3% Roma/Gypsies. The Muslim share will go up in the future because they actually give birth to children and because of the departing Croats. By 2030 or so it'll be about 51% Muslim. Or so.
67 posted on 09/22/2003 9:52:23 AM PDT by Ronly Bonly Jones
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To: Ronly Bonly Jones
Your figures for the Croat population appears to be several percent off. They were 17.4% according to the 1991 Census:

http://www.ttfse.org/default.aspx?p=23&c=85:

Ethnic groups (according year 1991 census): Bosniak 43,5%, Serbs 31,2%, Croats 17,4%, Yugoslavs 5,6%, Montenegrians 0,2%, Macedonians 0,1%, Albanians 0,1%, Others 0,8%, Not declared nationally 0,3%, Unknown 0,8%

And Croats say that their population in Bosnia is now lower. Many of them were settled purposely by Tudjman in Croatian Serb homes and apartments. You might say that the Serbs are in their houses in Bosnia, but most of these Bosnian Croats now in Croatia came from areas in Central Bosnia and left during the Croat-Muslim fighting. (See Croat site: http://www.hercegbosna.org/engleski/cromusl.html

The current CIA factbook uses 2000 figures and has the Muslims at 48%, the Serbs at 37.1%, and the Croats at 14.3%. I do not know if Krajina Serbs from Croatia, who are now in Bosnia, are included in the numbers. The Bosnian government chose not to take an official census in 2001 or 2002 when other ex-Yu republics - Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and Macedonia did - so the true percentage may or may not be significantly different than the current figures.

75 posted on 09/22/2003 12:56:17 PM PDT by joan
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