BOSNIAKS DISMISS ALL HISTORICAL FACTS RELATED TO SERBS

SARAJEVO, NOVEMBER 25 /SRNA/ – Miroslav Vujičić, SNSD member of the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly, has stated for SRNA that Bosniaks, lacking what he called serious holidays, have adopted November 25, celebrated in the Federation of BiH as a supposed BiH Statehood Day, choosing from history only what suits them while rejecting everything connected to Yugoslavia and to Serbs.

Vujičić said that November 25 does not constitute a holiday, as the date marking the 1943 session of ZAVNOBiH cannot be separated from November 29 and the session of AVNOJ.

"In the absence of real holidays, Bosniaks mark November 25 as a so-called `Statehood Day,` even though, in historical context, it is impossible to separate these two dates and events. Bosniaks take from the table what benefits them, while ignoring anything connected to Yugoslavia and to Serbs," Vujičić told SRNA.

He emphasized that most participants in the ZAVNOBiH session in Mrkonjić Grad and the AVNOJ session in Jajce were Serbs, and that ZAVNOBiH was chaired by Vojislav Kecmanović Đedo.

"The majority of participants in the National Liberation Struggle were also Serbs, while members of other nations were largely on the other side—aligned with what is known as the fascist and Ustasha movements and collaborators of German occupiers. Serbs were the leading force in the fight against fascism and in the struggle for freedom and liberation of all peoples, which Bosniaks deliberately overlook," Vujičić stressed.

According to him, in order to avoid such disputes, consensus among the peoples and political leaders in BiH on public holidays is required.

"We do not share many common points when it comes to our views on history, but I believe joint holidays could include November 21 - the day the Dayton Agreement was signed - New Year's Day, and a few other neutral holidays," Vujičić thinks.

He underlined that Republika Srpska will never give up holidays important to Srpska, such as Republic Day on January 9, nor others significant to the history of the Serbian people wherever they have lived.

The former ZAVNOBiH Day, November 25, is marked as a so-called Statehood Day in parts of the Federation of BiH where the population is predominantly Bosniak, while Croats do not observe it as a holiday.

BiH has no state-level law on public holidays, and the entities apply their own legislation—the Law on Holidays of Republika Srpska and the Law on Holidays of the Federation of BiH.

Republika Srpska observes January 9 as Republic Day and November 21 as the Day of the Establishment of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in BiH.