MOSTAR/SARAJEVO, Oct 24 (Hina) - New Croatian Initiative (NHI) president Kresimir Zubak has criticised Sulejman Tihic, the Muslim member of Bosnia's three-man presidency, for his farewell speech at Wednesday's funeral of Alija
Izetbgovic.
MOSTAR/SARAJEVO, Oct 24 (Hina) - New Croatian Initiative (NHI)
president Kresimir Zubak has criticised Sulejman Tihic, the Muslim
member of Bosnia's three-man presidency, for his farewell speech at
Wednesday's funeral of Alija Izetbgovic. #L#
Zubak, the leader of the strongest Croat opposition party in
Bosnia-Herzegovina, on Friday slammed Tihic for having talked only
about the suffering of Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) during the war in
the country.
The NHI chief sent Tihic an open letter in which he described his
speech as inappropriate. He said the speech was not an expression of
respect for the late Izetbegovic, nor did it serve efforts to
establish confidence among peoples in Bosnia-Herzegovina, to
which, Zubak said, Izetbegovic had aspired.
The NHI leader reminded Tihic that "Croats in Bosnia were also
detained in concentration camps and experienced other sorts of
suffering". He went on to say that members of the Bosnian Army were
also accountable for those sufferings.
"To negate those victims only contributes to a lack of
understanding and mistrust," reads Zubak's letter. Zubak stresses,
however, that he does not want to bring into question the war
suffering of the Bosniak people with this act.
(hina) ms sb