Serbian Lobbyists Are At It Again

More lies to incite a war, but what can they realistically achieve?

Meliha Avdic
3 min readOct 24, 2021
Photo by Steph Smith on Unsplash

The war in Bosnia (1992–1995) ended with the Dayton Peace Agreement, or that’s what we’re led to believe. However, I’d argue that the war has not ended, it has only changed. DPA created a system in which the enemies of Bosnia have political power inside Bosnia — in a Trojan horse style. Yes, despite common belief, the war in Bosnia was NOT a civilian war, it was a war of aggression from Serbia and Croatia.

This morning I got up to find an e-mail from Quora website where someone asked: How would Bosnia and Croatia react if Republika Srpska declared independence? Republika Srpska is one of the two entities in Bosnia, an administrative entity that doesn’t have its own territory or any right to declare independence. The international community has clearly stated this, so the fact that they are still hammering this is shocking. However, I shouldn’t be shocked. This is what they do. They get an idea into their heads and there is no other thought, it doesn’t matter if it’s rational, just, fair, dangerous, they fanatically stick to the idea they’ve got — a communist mindset!

Should there be a war in Bosnia, one of two things can happen:

1. Bosnian army achieves what DPA prevented — liberating our country so that we can finally live in peace.

2. There’s ethnic cleansing (I would be one of those killed), Croatia would swoop in and take the whole area to river Drina. There is no way that Croatia would let Serbia have that little, finger-like part to the east of river Drina when they won’t let Bosnia, an ancient country, stay here.

As you can see, in both these scenarios Serbs lose. Serbia fails to acknowledge that when it comes to Bosnia they are not fighting just Bosnians, Croatia wants the territory. Croatia is a big player. I have no idea how this escaped them. All you have to do is look at the geography — Croatia has already opened its jaw to swallow the whole of Bosnia. Serbs are helping Croatia NOT themselves. Serbs will be killed and forced out should Bosnia lose. As it is, Serbs have a place in Bosnia. So, why are Serbs determined to go against themselves?

This is a really complicated issue in the region. I feel I should be doing more articles on this, but, in my defence, I was hoping to do a documentary that would explain the whole thing. Unfortunately, we do not have funds for something like that, so…

Articles to follow:

1. How (not) to End a War: Dayton Peace Agreement in Spotlight — Documentary outline.

2. How Many Mistakes Can the International Community Make in Bosnia? — Have we learned anything?

That’s what I’ve got planned for now, but there will be more, many more. So stay tuned.

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Meliha Avdic

Born in Bosnia, grew up in the UK-another war child, yes. Passionate about people and the state of society. A bit of a maverick, apparently. www.meliha.uk