re europe vs muslim bosnians in article may iastate edu jakhan iastate edu javed ahmed khan writes in article c x m ejf news cis umn edu prabhak giga cs umn edu satya prabhakar writes actually this strife in yugoslavia goes back a long way bosinan muslims in collaboration with the nazis did to serbians after the first world war what serbs are doing to muslims now this is not a fresh case of i dont think you re correct here there have been no reports of the bosnians muslims supporting the nazis in their genocide against the serbians the fact is that the croat govt using their secret police called the ustache i think were the prime agents of the nazis in yugoslavia against the serbs actually just after the first world war many muslims were killed by serbs under serbian led regime between the two world wars many croats were also killed especially during the dictatorship introduced on jan some croats formed a resistance movement ustashas insurgents and were forced into exile to fascist italy which sheltered them in exile they practiced a terrorist approach to liberating croatia while croats in croatia followed the approach of peaceful negotiations under the leadership of vladko macek after the axis powers took control in the second world war vladko macek refused to collaborate so ustashas were brought in to run the newly formed puppet state this state included both croatia and bosnia herzegovina and its ideology saw muslims as the best croats flowers of croatian people some muslims in bosnia herzegovina therefore joined ustashas however even more others did not they joined tito s partisans the ustashas membership peaked at less than of croat and muslim population of that area at that time after wwii muslims were still considered a religious minority descended from croats or serbs who converted to islam centuries ago but in it was decided that forcing muslims to declare their nationality as either serbs or croats is not a good policy dobrica cosic the current president of the rump yugoslavia was strongly opposed and sought to prevent the category muslim in an ethnic sense from appearing on the next census he was criticized and expelled from the party so since that time bosnian muslims are considered a separate nationality although some still deny this and insist that they choose either serb or croat nationality sincerely josip
