On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Bosnian Cultural Association (BZK) Preporod organized a public forum in Mostar called "Steps to the 1992 Referendum".
President of the Mostar branch of BZK Revival Haris Omerika reminded that Revival traditionally marks the most important dates from BiH. history. Tonight, we continue with the forum "Steps to the referendum in 1992", which we will mark the 30th year of independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it is an activity by which we express our love for our homeland. It is our obligation to pass it on to the next generations - said Omerika.
The speakers at the meeting were dr. Muamer Džananović, research associate of the UNSA Institute for Research on Crimes against Humanity and International Law, dr. Jasmin Medić from the Institute of History UNSA and Dr. Hikmet Karčić from the Institute for the Islamic Tradition of Bosniaks.
The presenters presented their scientific research to the Mostar audience, in which they presented important steps leading up to the 1992 referendum. They talked, among other things, about events related to the organization and implementation of the referendum. If Croats or Bosniaks had not gone to the referendum, Bosnia and Herzegovina would have remained in a truncated Yugoslavia, and it is very likely that both Bosniak and Croat young men would have been forced to participate in the aggression against the Republic of Croatia. If in any case that truncated Yugoslavia had remained, Bosniaks in that country would have been second-, perhaps even third- or fourth-class citizens, as is the case today in Republika Srpska, is one of the messages they sent from the meeting.
