The Denial of Bosnia
Author | : Rusmir Mahmutćehajić |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2000 |
ISBN-10 | : 0271038578 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780271038575 |
Rating | : 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Mahmutcehaji'c (former vice president of the Bosnia-Herzegovina government) first prepared this text as a lecture to be given at Stanford University in 1997, but he was unexpectedly denied a visa to enter the United States. The book is an indictment of the partition of Bosnia and a plea for Bosnia's communities to reject ethnic segregation and restore mutual trust. He argues that different religious and ethnic cultures have co-existed in Bosnia for centuries, and that the partitioning was made possible by Western complicity with Serbian and Croatian nationalists. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR