Thread by @Rrrrnessa

Mladen, before Bosnia ever even held a referendum on Independence..the Serb leadership was establishing "Serb Autonomous Regions", preparing for a take-over of all municipalities & preparing Serbs for the full takeover of Bosnia throughout JNA collaboration. Docs drawn up in 1991

https://twitter.com/mladen_mrdalj/status/1481360868692701197

You cannot honestly compare that to Bosnians wanting an equal country where there is no ethnic segregation & everyone is entitled to the same human rights. There's no shadow government being prepared, there's no take-overs, there's no collaboration to make "Bosniak only" regions

Literally in 1988, ethnic Serbs were being urged by Milosevic and his party to take to the streets under the slogans "Strong Serbia, Strong Yugoslavia" instead of "Brotherhood & Unity".

& as Milosevic ramped up his ethno-nationalist rhetoric so did his supporters with constant rallies and protests being held, increasingly getting more violent. In 1988 screaming: "Long Live Serbia, Death to Albanians" or "Give us arms, we want weapons".

The fact is that Milosevic specifically alienated other Yugo nations and in order to keep himself in power pursued an ethno-nationalist policy & as early as '88 and '89 started focusing on the destabilisation of Bosnia and Herzegovina through Islamophobic propaganda especially.

& then came Milosevic actively urging and supporting the creations of Serb only autonomous provinces in Croatia, in Bosnia and proposing laws for Serbs to move to Kosovo & Macedonia in order to "reclaim the lands for Serbs".