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Karadžić, a key implementer of the Serbian national program, effectively
commanding him to accept the post of president of the Serbian
Democratic Party (sds). Regarding the outcome in Bosnia, Ćosić said
in retrospect that he had always “advocated a federation of Bosnia
and Serbia” and “insisted that the Muslims had every historical reason
to be with the Serbs.”
Ćosić viewed the situation on the ground in Bosnia toward the
end of the war (1994) and the refusal of the Bosnian Serbs to accept
the offers of the international community to solve the Bosnian question
as a reflection of their independence, for “no one understood
that the Serbian liberation movement in Bosnia had grown independent
to such an extent that no one was able to exert a decisive
influence on it: neither Slobodan, nor I.” He suggested (apparently
still backing every move by Karadžić) the inevitability of a “split in
Bosnia, of ethnic division of Bosnia and of long-term disquiet, of
unstable borders—a Palestine-like situation in Eastern Bosnia, along
the Drina, in Sandžak, in those lines of communication. There can
be no peace there. The partition of Bosnia must be a matter of compromise.
It goes without saying that no one will be content, but all
must fight for statehood.” 144
As far as Bosnia was concerned, the Serbs accomplished their
plans. Of the six objectives they defined at the outbreak of the
war, 145 nearly all were attained and sanctioned by the international
community.
Participants in the 1994 Second Congress of Serbian Intellectuals
in Belgrade approved the creation of a Serbian ethnic state and
144 Duga, April 9, 1994.
145 Karadžić disclosed the Bosnian Serbs war objectives for the first time at the a session of
the Assembly of Republica Srpska in 1992 . They are known as six strategic objectives:
first, separation from the other two communities (Croats and Muslims); second, creation
of a corridor between Semberija and Krajina; third, elimination of the Drina river as a
border, or abolishing the existing border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina;
fourth, creating a border on the Una and Neretva rivers; fifth, partition of Sarajevo into
Serbian and Muslim parts; and six, access by Republika Srpska to the Adriatic sea .