Original scientific paper
Croatian Ethnic Areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Regulation of Political and Legal Status of Bosnian- -Herzegovinian Croats 1990-1995
Saša MRDULJAŠ
Abstract
The fall of the communist system and democratisation of society
for Bosnian-Herzegovinian constitutive peoples, the Croats, Serbs
and Muslim/Bosniacs meant in the first place an opportunity for
a more adequate regulation of their political-legal status. Without
that the mentioned phenomena and processes could have
resulted in a much broader collective degradation than the
previous one. For each of the peoples could have experienced
the replacement of the dictatorship of one ideological group,
which at least formally presented itself as a protector of ethno-
-particular interests, with the position of inferiority to (any of) the
other Bosnian-Herzegovinian communities. The above situation
produced a supply of a number of very different models directed
at resolving the issues of internal order and regulation of inter-
-ethnic relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Regardless of social
environments within which they appear and the active positions
of their creators, their main characteristic is in the fact that they
stem from the political-interest or ideological basis or from one of
almost mechanical translation of patterns established in other
environments. The assessment given in the article of the qualities
of achieved political-legal positions of the Croatian people in
Bosnia and Herzegovina is based on its connection with the
possibilities for the regulation of the Croatian as well as other
constitutive peoples provided by the Constitution of Bosnia and
Herzegovina and based on the description of historicallydetermined
realities. The ultimate conclusion is that post-war i.e.
the current position of the Croatian people in Bosnia and
Herzegovina presents but a partial realisation of its constitutive
rights/possibilities.
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Hrčak ID:
16172
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Publication date:
30.6.2004.
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