Who is wiping out the Croats of Livno and Stolac?

By: Armin ALJOVIC

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, more than anywhere else, individual responsibility and guilt are hidden behind collectivity – the nation. Everything is hidden behind the nation, from economic to war crimes.

Ivan Musa, a delegate at the BiH Federal Parliament and the president of the Croat Christian Democratic Union of BiH, stated in an interview with Vecernji List that 'political Sarajevo does not want to recognize the Croats in BiH', and that it is 'trying to wipe them out from Sarajevo'. However, Musa says with confidence, nothing will change the Croat pursuit of their equality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, not even the verdict of the Hague Tribunal in November this year, in the case 'Herceg Bosna'.

All citizens of BiH have to equal, there is no doubt about that. However, political elites have been for 20 years working hard to achieve only their own equality. It can be seen from their property register. Politics has been for many a mighty tool for becoming rich. The Croat people is bearing the burden of hypocritical politics of its own political elite.

Europe and the world are striving for human rights of an individual, while in BiH, the politics are striving exclusively for collective rights. It seems that Bosnia and Herzegovina wants to join Europe by its own rules.

The changes of the Electoral law BiH which proposed Musa's boss from HDZ BiH, do not even include protection of the Croat people as ethnic group, au contraire, it implies a first degree discrimination of more than 220,000 Bosnian Croats. What is justification, the interest, the motive for a politics to be so courageous as to discriminate so many of its own compatriots?

HDZ is investing a great deal of funding into Covic to rip apart the Federation, which would secure peace for this party in an ethnically clean Croat electoral unit. The question is what the next step would be once citizens realize that the changes of the electoral law will not fill their empty stomachs.

SNSD has so far invested in Dodik over 5 billion KM (the RS debt) of the tax payers' money, in order to sustain both the leader and the RS, the latter being discriminatory towards Serbs. Turbulences in the entity are a consequence of Dodik's pragmatism.

Bosniak politicians are competing in a different sport. The country has almost broken in three parts of their hard work.

From 2014 to 2016, more than 80,000 people left Bosnia and Herzegovina, seeking better life elsewhere. Whole families have left the country. Towns and villages are deserted. The nations have eroded.

Musa talks about Sarajevo wanting to wipe out the Croats. He does not offer an explanation for wiping out the Croats from Herzegovina. The data reveals that most of the people left Livno. During only one month in 2016, 60 families left this municipality. People have also left Tomislavgrad and Stolac where HDZ BiH rules.

After all, does Sarajevo have any influence on Croatia? From Croatia, dear Musa, even without Sarajevo, in 2016, some 80,000 people were 'wiped out'. In 2016, Germany received about 54,000 Croats from Republic Croatia. Why blame Sarajevo? Do Croat political leaders BiH share any responsibility for this situation?