We strongly condemn the deniers of Bosniakism, they are actually splitting the nation along another rift, putting them in front of an either-or dilemma.
We strongly condemn the deniers of Bosnianism, it is a direct attack on the statehood synonym and they implicitly promote a "fildžan" state.
The state of Bosnia and Herzegovina is facing another phase of the realization of large-state projects directed against its survival, which puts the survival of its most numerous people as a state-political factor into question. The World Bosniak Congress (SBK) believes that the way in which the media discussion on the issue of naming the people (ethnos) is conducted at the moment does not contribute to its unification, on the contrary?
Until 1990, BiH was the only Yugoslav republic that, according to the constitutional definition, belonged to "nations", and not to one, total Bosnian people, which was based on the Zavnobihov principle that "it is both Serbian and Croatian and Muslim", i.e. "neither Serbian, neither Croatian, nor Muslim." In this way, it was said that BiH does not have its own national people, but is inhabited by three demographically and ethnically different elements.
Considering the modern principle of sovereignty, according to which the source of state sovereignty and power is the entire state people, i.e. the nation, BiH joined this political scope with the constitutional amendments of July 1990, when the Assembly of the RBiH voted for the amendment changes that made the RBiH a state, with a state nation and its peoples. In this sense, the amendment defining BiH as a state of its citizens, and only then of the people, was particularly significant, which inverted the ZAVNOBiH rule of "three i's". In other words, with the constitutional amendments of 1990, state sovereignty, as well as key decisions related to the state, were no longer in the hands of individual peoples, but of the entire Bosnian people, taken as a whole in a demographic, political and legal sense. And, precisely, this gave the possibility for RBiH to declare its independence and sovereignty in the March 1992 referendum.
SBK believes that a Bosniak and a Bosnian are not antipodes, but synonyms that do not exclude each other. Between the 9th and 10th centuries, the population that lives today in Bosnia and Herzegovina created alliances from which they would develop the first Bosnian state. The people of this country were called "good Bosniaks". Some authors claim that from the 12th to the middle of the 19th century, the name "Good Bosnian" Bosniak, or Bosnian as synonyms, was used as a label for the Bosnian demographic totality. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Bosnian population lived under the synonymous name - Bosniaks, Bosniaks, Bosnians - which defined their belonging to the country of Bosnia as their fundamental determinant. At the sessions of ZAVNOBiH and AVNOJ in 1943, BiH restored statehood. In the 1992 referendum, it regained its independence.
It is noticeable that concepts are often mixed up
- nation (which, according to the modern principle of sovereignty, is the source of state sovereignty and power), so there is only one Bosnian nation in BiH, and those who declare otherwise are national minorities
- people (ethnic group).
On the imposed ethnic dilemma: either Bosnians or Bosniaks,
The World Bosniak Congress says: both Bosnians and Bosniaks, in the civilly organized state of BiH.
Until then, the SBK understands the promotion of the exclusive views of Bosniak or Bosnia as creating noise that does not contribute to the understanding or resolution of the crisis we are witnessing.
We strongly condemn the deniers of Bosniakism, they are actually splitting the nation along another rift, putting them in front of an either-or dilemma.
We strongly condemn the deniers of Bosnianism, it is a direct attack on the statehood synonym and they implicitly promote a "fildžan" state.
The task of this generation is the constitutional standardization of the Bosnian (state) nation as a step to establish the overall state sovereignty of BiH, thus ending the centuries-long cycle of its external deconstruction.
Debates on the naming of ethnic groups have proven to be an evolutionary process that will never become final.
