Prsten za glavu aždaje: Sarajevo u strateškim ciljevima Republike Srpske 1992-1995 / A Ring for the Head of a Dragon: Sarajevo in the Strategic Goals of Republika Srpska 1992-1995

Abstract

In the well-known document titled The decision about strategic goals of the Serb people in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was officially published on the 26th of November 1993, and adopted on the 16th Assembly of the Serb people in Bosnia and Herzegovina in Banja Luka on the 12th of May 1992, the division of Sarajevo into the Serb and Muslim part was defined as the fifth strategic goal out of six. In the subversive euphoria, documented by shorthand from the Banja Luka assembly, the military and political leaders who explained the strategic goals of the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina at this meeting, left proof of the origin of this document, which ended up in the Assembly only to receive a legal form and to gain the Bosnian-Herzegovinian birth certificate. The political executor of the activities for the violent establishment of the Serb state westwards from the River Drina, Radovan Karadžić emphasized at the Banja Luka assembly the extreme importance of Sarajevo for the achievement of other strategic goals. His and Mladić’s interpretations are firm and irrefutable evidence that the brutal siege of Sarajevo, its barbaric destruction and crimes committed to its inhabitants are not a by-product and the unwanted consequence of the development of battles in and around Sarajevo, but a project aim in the function of realization of the mentioned strategic goals. In this paper, based on authentic documents, we will reconstruct the importance of Sarajevo and its siege as the strategic goal and the instrument for the realization of the whole of defined strategic goals of Republika Srpska during the war operations led on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period 1992-1995.