Sidran’s 'All-Bosnian Parliament' is the voice of reason, the battle for BiH is the battle against

Ernad Metaj

We live an anti-Bosnian time in which its natural multiethnic being is constantly attacked, so the call of academician Abdullah Sidran to form the ‘All-Bosnian Parliament’ (Svebosanski sabor) is
understandable and necessary. At the same time, Sidran with surgical accuracy detects that politics does not have the capacity to solve the accumulated problems in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sidran's idea is to bring together top intellectuals capable of rising above individual ethnic issues in order to focus on the survival of BiH.

Sidran precisely stated the names of BH intellectuals such as Senadin Lavić, Esad Duraković, Muharem Cero, who also advocate such an attitude.

The gathering of the ‘Svebosanski Sabor’ is not a new idea, there was a need for it a long time ago, but there was no one who would have the strength and will to turn verbalization into practical action. What is important at the moment is that the Serb Civic Council (Srpsko građansko vijeće), the Croat National Council (Hrvatsko narodno vijeće), and the Congress of Bosniak Intellectuals (Kongres bošnjačkih intelektualaca) are ready for that.

The parliamentarians from the period 1992-95 are also ready for such an endeavor. There would be Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks. All those who want a normal life, which cannot exist as long as
destructive policies live in BiH, would gather there. The All-Bosnian Parliament would also be a strong response to the international community, in which there are forces that want to give the
disappearance of BiH - the appearance of inevitability.

Ethnic divisions in BiH have been imposed and are maintained by the current politics.

It is wrong to shift all the blame on Greater-Serbia nationalism, which is currently the most aggressive. The ideology of a joint criminal enterprise based on the idea of ​​blood and soil implemented by HDZ has been traveling along with it for years and now it is even more present.

The disintegrative factor is also a part of the Bosniak policy which, according to Sidran, agreed on the territorial realization of national sovereignty with Belgrade even before the war!

That means the creation of national territories, and those have not brought good to anyone. As the professor of the Faculty of Political Sciences Nerzuk Ćurak recently said, by allowing the
political organization of monoethnic parties, BiH dug a grave for itself and stopped progress.

‘Svebosanski sabor’ is necessary in the fight so that the promises of democracy would not be violated, as well as the European Charter of Civil Rights. This is the last line of defense against
forcing BiH in this section of the history to become a micro-replica of the Third Reich, in which ‘coexistence’ has been turned into a dangerous word. Sidran well noticed that coexistence in BiH
became a parallel to fascism.

There are still enough people in BiH who do not want to live fascism. Despite the structure that requires internal division, people connect horizontally, living their authentic lives, because they
are aware of their plural identities. Ordinary people do not allow BiH to be killed, they are the hope that Sidran is on the right path, they could be the strength of the ‘All-Bosnian Parliament’.

In the future, stories like the one from Banja Luka, where at a wedding Serb greets a Bosniak friend who was on the opposite side during the war, must not pass under the radar. It is time to
hear the applause that this speech received. That is why Sidran is right, but it is necessary to start acting because the forces that are killing BiH and its multiethnic being are not at rest.