Croatia and Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina under terroristic attacks by IslamistsFebruary 12-th, 2021
Croatia and Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina under terroristic attacks by Islamists
Terrorism is not just an abstract concept to us. Croatia, and particularly Croats of Bosnia and
Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina, BiH), have long been under attack by Islamist terrorism.
It began during the war in BiH, when several thousands of volunteers from Islamic nations
which, naming themselves after Afghan veterans, called themselves mujaheddins, participated
on the Bosniak-Muslim Army (Armija BiH) side. Most of them crossed through Croatia
during the initial Croat-Muslim alliance. They fought within the unit “El Mudzahid” of the
Bosniak-Muslim Armija BiH and committed atrocious crimes, including the ritual beheading
of prisoners beginning with the Serbs, and then, in the second half of the war, Croat prisoners
as well.
With the blessing of the Bosniak political elite, for example
Sefik Dzaferovic, the current
Bosniak member of the tripartite Presidency of BiH, they were granted BiH citizenship
without any supervision. Some of them remained living in BiH after the war, mostly in
isolated communities where they were joined by young local men. These communities have
become hotbeds for future terrorists. Some of them engaged in the post-war task of harassing
Croat returnees, mostly in Central Bosnia which was for the most part kept secret in Croatia.
In Croatia, Islamist terrorism is considered to be far removed, something that happens in “big
countries” or cities such as Paris, but Croatian citizens have also been targets of Islamist
terrorism, from the massacre of twelve workers of the
Hidroelektra enterprise in Algeria in
1993 to a terrorist attack organised by
al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya in Rijeka (Croatia) in October
1995, after Croatia had extradited its leader. A suicide bomber crashed into the police station
in Rijeka with a car. As a result, thirty people were wounded and it is miraculous that there
were no casualties.
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