Yesterday’s marking of the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Croat Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia was shameful, said the Bosniak Council of Intellectuals adding that marking of that event only harms the Croats who see Bosnia as their homeland.
“Raising of pre-election tensions by the Croat People’s Assembly (HNS), whose ideological leaders are Bozo Ljubic and the HDZ BiH, headed by Dragan Covic, with the marking of the 25th anniversary of the Herzeg-Bosnia is a shameful, unscrupulous act of the Croat people’s leaders,” the Council said.
Bozo Ljubic, said on Tuesday at a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of this self-declared Bosnian Croat political structure Herzeg-Bosnia that it had contributed to the integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina and it was integrated into the country’s fundaments.
Ljubic, who is the Chairman of the Main Council of the Croat People’s Assembly (HNS BiH) – an umbrella organisation of Croat political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina – and representative of Bosnian Croats in Croatia’s Parliament, said this date should be marked as important to everyone in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Council also said that Boso Ljubic’s statements are “harmful towards the Croats who see Bosnia as their homeland.”
“We must note that Ljubic’s statements go beyond the legitimate political demands of Bosnian Croats, as an equal people in Bosnia and Herzegovina. His statements are full of nationalist and separatist ideas that are punishable by the current laws in Bosnia,” the Council adds.
They said that the “celebration of the destruction of the legal and constitutional order of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina project by people sitting in the highest legislative body of Bosnia’s neighbouring state – the Croatian Parliament, is but a sad fact.”
The Council concluded that the so-called Herzeg-Bosnia project was supported by the then political leadership of Croatia as part of their “Greater-Croatia state project.”
