Post by Swedish ex High Representative in Bosnia sparks outrage

He posted on Thursday an image of Old Town Sarajevo which he wrote was captured about a century ago. It showed four women, wearing hijabs, crossing a bridge, with a man in traditional Bosnian outfit walking in the background.

“There is progress in our world. This was Sarajevo a century or so ago,” wrote Bosnia’s first post-war High Representative who oversaw the implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement between 1995 and 1997.

https://twitter.com/carlbildt/status/1080931299517444096

The comment inspired Emir Ramic, the director of the Institute for Research of Genocide in Canada (IGC), to write an open letter to Bildt. He accused Bildt of running a “continuous anti-Bosnian campaign.”

Bosnia and Herzegovina proved that it could live with the diversities within it for centuries, Ramic wrote, adding that the Bosnia will confront everybody who is working “against a European country whose social modus the EU took to built its common existence.”

A barrage of criticism also came from social media users:  

https://twitter.com/aagovic/status/1081125469926371331https://twitter.com/ResulMehmedovic/status/1080955994434428928https://twitter.com/MirnesKovac/status/1081071301576589313https://twitter.com/greycloud89/status/1081124106085507072