Graz Agreement
The Graz Agreement was an agreement between the leader of the Bosnian Serbs , Radovan Karadžić and the leader of the Bosnian Croats , Mate Boban , which was concluded on May 6, 1992. One month after the outbreak of the war in Bosnia, the territorial division of Croatian and Serbian areas in Bosnia-Herzegovina was decided. The behavior of the Croats amounted to an alliance betrayal of the Bosnians.
procedure
Slobodan Milošević and Franjo Tudjman had already agreed on the partition of Bosnia in 1991 at a secret meeting in the Karadjordjevo hunting area. The two parties are now met again, represented by Karadzic and Boban in a meeting room in the Austrian Graz Airport . The Bosnians were deliberately left out of the meeting. At that time, Boban's HDZ party was still formally involved in the Bosnian government . International media reported on the meeting early on.
Result and further course of the war
The fighting between Serbs and Croats was stopped. From the beginning of 1993 the Croatians fought actively against the Bosnians. As a result, the Bosnians had to fight two opponents in an extremely poor pension suit. The protection missions of the international community were poorly equipped, and the international community lacked the political will to actively intervene in the war. Only in the face of repeated massacres of the Bosnian population ( Srebrenica massacre ) did NATO finally intervene actively in the war on behalf of the Bosnians.
Croatia changed its strategy when all territorial objectives had been achieved and Serbia was on the defensive. In the last months of the war, Croatians and Bosnians made significant gains. The territorial division of Bosnia was finally regulated in the Dayton Agreement.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Florian Bieber: When Bosnia was split up at a secret meeting in Graz Die Presse, May 17, 2012.
- ↑ Blaine Harden: SERBS, CROATS AGREE TO CARVE UP BOSNIA Washington Post, May 8, 1992.
- ↑ Dunja Melcic: The war in Yugoslavia: Handbook history, course and consequences, p 424